HIVEing: The effect of a semantic web technology on inter-indexer consistency

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 307-329

  White, Hollie ^a   Willis, Craig ^b   Greenberg, Jane ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering (HIVE); Indexing; Inter indexer consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902511605     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JD-07-2012-0083     Document Type: Article

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