Controlled vocabularies for scientific data: Users and desired functionalities

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-8

  Zhang, Yue ^a   Ogletree, Adrian ^a   Greenberg, Jane ^a   Rowell, Chelcie ^b  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled vocabularies; data repository; ontology; scientific data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987750895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23739231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010054     Document Type: Article

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