From the universe of knowledge to the universe of concepts: The structural revolution in classification for information retrieval

Axiomathes

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 131-144

  Beghtol, Clare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification theory; Classificatory structure; Colon Classification; Dewey decimal classification; Enumerative classification; Faceted classification; Information retrieval; J. Mills; S.R. Ranganathan; W.C.B. Sayers

Indexed keywords

EID: 43649091931     PISSN: 11221151     EISSN: 15728390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10516-007-9021-0     Document Type: Article

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