Organising development knowledge: Towards situated classification work on the web

Webology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  van der Velden, Maja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Categories; Classification; Design; Folksonomy; Mapping; Portal; Social inclusion; Tags; Web directories

Indexed keywords

EID: 59349089831     PISSN: 1735188X     EISSN: 1735188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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