How a museum knows? Structures, work roles, and infrastructures of information work

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1375-1387

  Huvila, Isto ^a,b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

information use; information workers; museum informatics

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY APPROACH; COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION; DOCUMENTED INFORMATIONS; ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS; INFORMATICS; INFORMATION WORKERS; MUSEUM COLLECTIONS; SOCIAL INFORMATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; INFORMATION USE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84878573825     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22852     Document Type: Article

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