Linked Open Data technologies for publication of census microdata

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1802-1814

  Pabón, Gustavo ^a   Gutiérrez, Claudio ^a   Fernández, Javier D ^a,b   Martínez Prieto, Miguel A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

data formats; government information; semantic web

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DATA FORMATS; DATA PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; FINE-GRAINED ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT INFORMATION; LINKED OPEN DATUM; STATISTICAL DATAS; THEORY AND PRACTICE;

DATA PROCESSING; SEMANTIC WEB;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84882450307     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22876     Document Type: Article

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