![]() Based on the mental mapping of the experts, the expert adviser system was designed and developed. 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. ![]() Private knowledge or heuristics was elicited from three human expert cataloguers through a multiple-observation approach. Public/published knowledge are the relevant AACR2R rules that were identified based on the nine types of published conference proceedings. With ToolBook, programs are created visually, with a minimum of coding. ToolBook was targeted at novice programmers as well as experienced programmers that needed to create programs quickly. It is similar to HyperCard, but uses a book metaphor. The knowledge base of the expert system was in the domain of cataloguing published conference proceedings and consists of public and private knowledge. Asymetrix Toolbook is an easy to use rapid application development environment for interactive applications. ![]() The development tool was Asymetrix ToolBook II. 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. This article describes the design and development of an expert adviser to catalogue published conference proceedings.
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