Wiki deployment in corporate settings

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 57-64

  Arazy, Ofer ^a   Gellatly, Ian ^a   Jang, Soobaek ^b   Patterson, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; Information services; Internet; Organizations; Software

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; COLLABORATION PROJECTS; COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS; ENCYCLOPEDIAS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; ORGANIZATIONS; SOFTWARE;

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; OPEN SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 67649853310     PISSN: 02780097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2009.932804     Document Type: Article

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