Soft ontologies, spatial representations and multi-perspective explorability

Expert Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 474-483

  Kaipainen, Mauri ^a   Normak, Peeter ^a   Niglas, Katrin ^a   Kippar, Jaagup ^a   Laanpere, Mart ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Exploration; Folksonomies; Interactive media; Multi perspective exploration; Multidimensional scaling; Ontospaces; Soft ontologies; Tagging

Indexed keywords

METADATA; SEMANTIC WEB;

EXPLORATION; FOLKSONOMIES; INTERACTIVE MEDIA; MULTI-PERSPECTIVE EXPLORATION; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; ONTOSPACES; SOFT ONTOLOGIES; TAGGING;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 54849431876     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2008.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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