Full Disclosure Matters.
In the preceding article in this Forum, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Eric C. Kansa, and Jason M. Schultz have announced that "a recently released data-sharing web application, called Open Context (www.opencontext.org), enables researchers to publish structured data along with textual narratives and media (...
| Publicado en: | Near Eastern Archaeology Vol. 70; no. 4; pp. 194 - 197 |
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University of Chicago Press
Dec2007
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