Metadata interoperability in public sector information

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 204-231

  Bountouri, Lina ^a   Papatheodorou, Christos ^a,b   Soulikias, Vasilis ^c   Stratis, Mathios ^d  

^a IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b PharmaInformatics Unit   (Greece)

^c Local Archive of Limni Evia   (Greece)

^d Department of Studies and Research   (Greece)

Author keywords

Application profiles; EGovernment; Metadata interoperability; Ontology based integration; Public sector information

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION THEORY; METADATA; ONTOLOGY;

EGOVERNMENT; METADATA INTEGRATIONS; METADATA STANDARDS; ONTOLOGY-BASED INTEGRATION; PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION; SEMANTIC INTEGRATIONS; WORK STUDIES;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 62449227919     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551508098601     Document Type: Article

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