Mapping the knowledge covered by library classification systems

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 877-901

  Zins, Chaim ^a,b   Santos, Plácida L V A C ^b  

^a Knowledge Mapping Research   (Israel)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATIONS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HUMAN KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; LIBRARY SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 79953867202     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21481     Document Type: Article

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