Obsolescence in subject description

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 154-161

  Buckland, Michael K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Discourse; Information retrieval; Language; Librarians; Obsolescence; Resource description languages; Subject headings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857594312     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00220411211209168     Document Type: Article

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