Subject gateway

A subject gateway is an Internet service consisting of organized Web-pages listing  resources for a particular subject area. Subject gateways are mostly referring to on-line sources, but this is not necessarily so.

Literature:

Bawden, D. & Robinson, L. (2002). Internet subject gateways revisited. International Journal of Information Management, 22(2), 157-162.

Tramullas, J & Garrido, P. (2005). Constructing Web subject gateways using Dublin Core, RDF and Topic Maps. Information Research, 11(2) paper248. Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/11-2/paper248.html

See also: Bibliographic guide

Birger Hjørland

Last edited: 18-01-2006

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