Comparisons Between Internet Users' Free-Text Queries and Controlled Vocabularies: A Case Study in Water Quality

Technical Services Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 15-32

  Nowick, Elaine A ^a   Mering, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled vocabularies; Keywords; Metadata; User search behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006127826     PISSN: 07317131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J124v21n02_02     Document Type: Article

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