Harvesting organically grown vocabularies: Finding user-generated controlled vocabularies within pre-existing information repositories
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Digital Asset Management
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1743-6559
DOI: 10.1057/dam.2010.19