AN EXPERT-SYSTEM TO AID CATALOGING AND SEARCHING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTSON DIGITAL LIBRARIES

This paper describes a metadata based indexing system with a built-in expert system for cataloging and searching digital libraries on the Wo rld Wide Web. The specific features of this system are the following: An expert system with a knowledge base and a subject thesaurus, a mode l of a reference librarian's behavior for cataloging and searching, an d an intelligent user interface to provide context sensitive help to t he user At present our expert system is limited to the subjects of Com puter Science and Electrical Engineering. The design issues and the im plementation details of the expert system to mimic a librarian's behav ior for automated document searching and cataloging are discussed in d etail. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.