Ensuring the discoverability of digital images for social work education: an online "tagging" survey to test controlled vocabularies

Webology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Daly, Ellen ^a   Ballantyne, Neil ^b  

^a Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Controlled vocabularies; Digital images; Folksonomies; Indexing; Tagging; Taxonomies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749341584     PISSN: 1735188X     EISSN: 1735188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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