_Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in MARC Databases_

[Julie Yang]

Knowbot (uncommercial so far and  it is developed at Georgia Tech under Dr.
Alan Porter's guidance) looks promising. It is up to v3 now and it has being
used by defense and army research tanks, as well as some other research and
business situations. Now our library hope  to work with the product so that
it can be librarians's intelligent tool. The Knowbot searchs our library
databases (most of article citation databases)  and do some "mining" and
analysis based on user's interests. The primary purpose of the product is
for technolgy analysis and forcasting. The results are usually great (from
the users). My wonder  is what our interests (needs or wants) are  - wish
list  which would like "agent" to do for us.

Julie Yang, Library,  Geogia Institute of technology, (404)-894-1389


Gerry McKiernan  wrote:
>  _Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in MARC Databases_
>
>   I am in the process of preparing a review article on
>the application of data mining and knowledge discovery in
>databases (KDD) to MARC record databases. These techniques
>are efforts to identify 'hidden' information within large
>data sets. It is my belief that there exists important, yet
>overlooked, relationships within MARC records created through
>the descriptive and subject cataloging process that have not
>been as fully exploited as they might. A good example would
>be to identify significant works on a subject based upon
>associations within records of a given publisher, author(s)
>and subject heading and call number.
>