Towards a core ontology for information integration

Journal of Digital Information

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Doerr, Martin ^a   Hunter, Jane ^b   Lagoze, Carl ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b DSTC Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION EXCHANGES; INFORMATION INTEGRATION; METADATA VOCABULARIES; ONTOLOGY;

DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LINGUISTICS; METADATA; WEB BROWSERS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 6944248687     PISSN: 13687506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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