An Afterword to Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data.
EDITOR'S SUMMARY For his book Indexing It All: The Subject in the Age of Documentation, Information, and Data, Ronald E. Day was honored with the 2015 ASIS&T Best Information Science Book award. In this afterword, Day explains that the book examines the concept of 'aboutness' in the modern documenta...
| Publicado en: | Bulletin of the Association for Information Science & Technology Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 25 - 29 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec/Jan2016
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