The usefulness of cybersemiotics in dealing with problems of knowledge organization and document mediating systems

Cybernetica

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 273-299

  Brier, Søren ^a  

^a Royal School of Librarianship   (Denmark)

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