Design and development of a rule based expert system for AACR

Cataloguing is an important activity in a library. It forms the basis for information retrieval. Facilitating effective retrieval of information is the primary objective of any information system / library. Over the years, we witness that the number of rules in AACR have increased like other codes in tune with the emergence of various types of documents. Obviously, it became very difficult for the cataloguer to remember all these rules in order to effectively catalogue a document. The book explains a step by step approach in building an expert system for Part 1 (rules for bibliographic description) of AACR2.

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Dr. Antony Jose is presently working as the Chief Librarian of Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon. Dr. ARD Prasad is professor and head of Documentation Research and Training Centre at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.