An Adviser for Cataloguing Conference Proceedings: Design and Development of CoPAS

This article describes the design and development of an expert adviser to catalogue published conference proceedings. The Conference Proceeding Adviser System (CoPAS) was designed to educate novice cataloguers in creating bibliographic records for published conference proceedings as well as to impro...

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Published in:Cataloging & classification quarterly 2000-07, Vol.29 (3), p.63-80
Main Authors: De Silva, Sharon Manel, Zainab, Awang Ngah
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliographic description. Cataloging. Referencing
cataloguing
Conference Proceeding Adviser System
CoPAS
design
development
Exact sciences and technology
Expert systems
heuristics
Information and communication sciences
Information and document structure and analysis
Information processing and retrieval
Information science. Documentation
knowledge acquisition
knowledge base
library science
mental mapping
mental modelling
Online cataloguing
Sciences and techniques of general use
systems design
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Summary:This article describes the design and development of an expert adviser to catalogue published conference proceedings. The Conference Proceeding Adviser System (CoPAS) was designed to educate novice cataloguers in creating bibliographic records for published conference proceedings as well as to improve conventional instruction in the cataloguing of conference proceedings. The development tool was Asymetrix ToolBook II. The knowledge base of the expert system was in the domain of cataloguing published conference proceedings and consists of public and private knowledge. Public/published knowledge are the relevant AACR2R rules that were identified based on the nine types of published conference proceedings. Private knowledge or heuristics was elicited from three human expert cataloguers through a multiple-observation approach. The elicited personal knowledge was then modelled into a mental map of their thought processes on how to provide a bibliographic description for published conference proceedings. Based on the mental mapping of the experts, the expert adviser system was designed and developed.
ISSN:0163-9374
1544-4554
DOI:10.1300/J104v29n03_05