The organization of information in a statistical office

Journal of Official Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 413-440

  Gelsema, Tjalling ^a  

^a STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Information modeling; Metadata; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867084566     PISSN: 0282423X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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