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Month: March 2022
"Open Access through Subscribe to Open: A Society Publisher’s Implementation"
Director – Library Technology at Middle Tennessee State University
"A Survey of Researchers’ Code Sharing and Code Reuse Practices, and Assessment of Interactive Notebook Prototypes"
Digital Archivist at DePaul University
70 Million Pages: "New Project Will Unlock Access to Government Publications on Microfiche"
Librarian for Core Systems and Digital Repository Administration at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
"Authors Alliance Submits Reply Comment in Copyright Office Press Publishers’ Right Study"
Research and Digital Scholarship Librarian at Southwestern University
"Modeling the Process of Personal Digital Archiving through Ubiquitous and Desktop Devices: A Systematic Review"
Systems Librarian at Harvard University
"The Research Data Life Cycle, Legacy Data, and Dilemmas in Research Data Management"
University Presses’ New Platforms and Publishing Models: "Sustaining and Reimagining the Monograph"
Systems Librarian at Georgia Institute of Technology
"UW Libraries to Launch Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education"
Scholarly Communications Librarian at Louisiana State University in Shreveport
It’s Déjà VU All over Again: Artificial Intelligence in Libraries
No doubt you have noticed the increasing number of articles that talk about AI and libraries. You might be tempted to think that this is a new idea. You would be wrong. Gaining stream in the mid-1980s, peaking around 1990, and declining significantly by the late 1990s, libraries experimented with the application of expert systems in a number of functional areas, including abstracting, acquisitions, cataloging, collection development, document delivery, indexing, bibliographic search, and reference.
An expert system is: "a computer system emulating the decision-making ability of a human expert." During the period in question, they were typically developed by libraries using expert system shells. Less frequently, an AI programming language, such as Prolog, was used.
Sharon Manel De Silva’s "A Review of Expert Systems in Library and Information Science" (1977) surveys over 400 papers on this topic.
An example of expert system development during this period was the University of Houston Libraries’ Intelligent Reference Information System project, which produced the Index Expert (expert system shell) and the Reference Expert (Prolog) systems. Reference Expert’s open source code was distributed at no charge to over 500 libraries at their request. The project also conducted a survey of ARL libraries’ expert system activity, which was published as a SPEC Kit.
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