Developing Information Infrastructure: The Tension Between Standardization and Flexibility

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  1996

• Venue

  Science, Technology & Human Values

• Publication date

  1996-10-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1177/016224399602100402
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