Information ecology: Open system environment for data, memories, and knowing

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 127-144

  Baker, Karen S ^a   Bowker, Geoffrey C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data management; Information ecology; Infrastructure; Long term; Memory

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPEN SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION ECOLOGY; INFORMATION SYSTEM VOCABULARIES;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34547892301     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: 15737675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10844-006-0035-7     Document Type: Article

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