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Subject:Re: Expert Systems? or Knowledge Management? From:Itowsley -at- aol -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 21 Nov 2000 19:42:48 EST
Uh, librarians have been doing this for over 2 millenia. First in the role
of priests (keepers of all information) and, as time went on, librarians.
All of the (non-programming) skills librarians are taught are the same as
those for creating knowledge management systems and expert systems. I've
worked in the area and the work of Ranganathan is some of the most important
ever done. (He is the librarian who invented the Colon Classification System
- a system used in India and most non-English speaking countries to classify
information for retrieval. Yahoo is based off of this paradigm.)
Librarians - especially catalogers and classification experts - have been
doing this for a _very_ _long_ time. Remember, it is very amusing to me to
watch as the computer world rediscovers library science. Admittedly, much of
it has been forgotten by most of the library world which has been preoccupied
with full-text search and visible customer service issues. Thesaurus
building, indexing, classification theory, all of these are integral parts of
creating expert systems. If you want some information about such things
check out the American Society of Information Scientists (ASIS) publications.
Regards,
Melissa L. Owsley
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