The thesaurus: A historical viewpoint, with a look to the future

The Thesaurus: Review, Renaissance, and Revision

Volumn 37, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 5-21

  Aitchison, Jean ^b   Clarke, Stella Dextre ^a  

^a BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Classification; Facet Analysis; Thesauri Format; Thesauri History; Thesauri Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920870796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1300/J104v37n03_02     Document Type: Chapter

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