Selection advisor : an expert system for collection development
Mark D. Johnston, John Weckert · Information Technology and Libraries · 1990
Given financial constraints and the wast amount of materials available, it is extremely important for librarians to select wisely. An expert system is being developed to help in the selection of materials for academic libraries. The selection criteria on which the system is based fall into six categories: subject, intellectual content, potential use, relation to collection, bibliographical considerations, and language. Answers to each question are in the range of −5 to +5. Conceptually the structure of the knowledge base is that of a state transition diagram. In addition to describing the system, the paper also considers it in the context of expert systems in general. In particular, model-based approaches and machine learning are considered