A quantitative analysis of product categorization standards: Content, coverage, and maintenance of eCl@s, UNSPSC, eOTD, and the RosettaNet Technical Dictionary

Knowledge and Information Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-114

  Hepp, Martin ^a,b   Leukel, Joerg ^c   Schmitz, Volker ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

eCl@s; Electronic catalogs; Electronic commerce; Metrics; Ontologies; Products and services classification; RosettaNet; UNSPSC

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; TURING MACHINES;

ELECTRONIC CATALOGS; METRICS; PRODUCTS AND SERVICES; ROSETTANET; UNSPSC;

MAINTENANCE;

EID: 36148935169     PISSN: 02191377     EISSN: 02193116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10115-006-0054-2     Document Type: Article

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