Blobgects: Digital museum catalogs and diverse user communities

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 666-678

  Srinivasan, Ramesh ^a   Boast, Robin ^b   Becvar, Katherine M ^a   Furner, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WEB CRAWLER;

CONTEXTUALIZATION; CULTURAL HERITAGE OBJECTS; DIGITAL MUSEUMS; EMPIRICAL - COMPARISONS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS; USER COMMUNITIES; WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 85042593186     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21027     Document Type: Article

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