Extracting knowledge from U.S. department of defense freedom of information act requests with social media

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 151-157

  Whitmore, Andrew ^a  

^a SIMMONS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Freedom of Information Act; Information visualization; Knowledge discovery; Social media; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860360505     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2011.08.015     Document Type: Article

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