A formal model of annotations of digital content

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Agosti, Maristella ^a   Ferro, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Annotation; Digital content; Digital library system; Foundations; Hypertext

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL CONTENT; DIGITAL LIBRARY SYSTEMS; FORMAL MODELS;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; FORMAL LOGIC; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 37049000565     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1292591.1292594     Document Type: Article

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