Building a usable and accessible semantic web interaction platform

World Wide Web

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 143-167

  García, Roberto ^a   Gimeno, Juan Manuel ^a   Perdrix, Ferran ^b   Gil, Rosa ^a   Oliva, Marta ^a   López, Juan Miguel ^a   Pascual, Afra ^a   Sendín, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b Segre Media Group   (Spain)

Author keywords

Semantic Web interaction. usability. accessibility

Indexed keywords

DESKTOP APPLICATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS RESOURCES; INTERACTION PARADIGM; MEDIA DISTRIBUTION; REAL-WORLD; SEMANTIC WEB APPLICATIONS; SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY; WEB INTERACTIONS; WEB USER INTERFACE;

METADATA; SEMANTICS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 78650988039     PISSN: 1386145X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11280-009-0076-2     Document Type: Article

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