Describing engineering documents with faceted approaches: Observations and reflections

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 420-445

  Wild, Peter J ^a   Giess, Matt D ^b   McMahon, Chris A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archiving; Classification; Information science

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349595898     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220410910952410     Document Type: Article

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