Evaluating the success of vocabulary reconciliation for cultural heritage collections

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 464-479

  Van Hooland, Seth ^a   Verborgh, Ruben ^b   De Wilde, Max ^a   Hercher, Johannes ^c   Mannens, Erik ^b   Van De Walle, Rik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

controlled vocabularies; metadata; semantic web

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HERITAGE COLLECTIONS; CULTURAL HERITAGES; DATA TRANSFORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS COLLECTIONS; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS; LINKED DATUM; RECONCILIATION PROCESS;

DATA HANDLING; SEMANTIC WEB; THESAURI; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

METADATA;

EID: 84874243037     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22763     Document Type: Article

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