Digital Futures? Sociological Challenges and Opportunities in the Emergent Semantic Web

Sociology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 173-189

  Halford, Susan ^a   Pope, Catherine ^a   Weal, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

digital data; linked data; Semantic Web; sociology; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874579523     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038512453798     Document Type: Article

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