Tagging: an organization scheme for the internet.

How should the information on the Internet be organized? This question and the possible solutions spark debates among people concerned with how we identify, classify, and retrieve Internet content. This paper discusses the benefits and the controversies of using a tagging system to organize Internet...

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Publicado en:Information Technology & Libraries Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 34 - 40
Autor principal: Visser MA
Formato: tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: American Library Association Mar2010
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