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Classificatory Theory in Data-intensive Science: The Case of Open Biomedical Ontologies

Sabina Leonelli ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of ExeterCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 47-65 | Published online: 15 May 2012

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