Knowledge society arguments revisited in the semantic technologies era

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 225-244

  Kalfoglou, Yannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

emergent semantics; knowledge society; mechanised trust; semantic interoperability; semantic technologies; semantic web; social software

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649105079     PISSN: 17411009     EISSN: 17411017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijkl.2007.015553     Document Type: Article

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