Dr A.R.D. Prasad is an Indian Library and Information Science Academics, Information professional and Information scientist. Dr Prasad teaches at Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore as Professor of Library and Information Science and at present he is Head of DRTC, which is India's only "proper" ischool with a very strong research program. His areas of specialization include Artificial intelligence-Applications in LIS, Natural language processing, Digital Libraries, Hypertext and Multimedia applications, Institutional repository, Open-source software used in Libraries, Open Access to Information, Semantic Web Techonology, Free and open source software etc. He is pioneer in promotion and development of Open-source software used in Libraries and Information Centres in India, Open access (publishing) and Open Access movement. He is visiting Faculty of University of Trento, Italy.
Early life
He has Master of Arts (M.A), M.Phil. in Philosophy, BLIS and ADIS degree and obtain his doctorate (Ph.D) on "Application of Natural Language Processing Tools and Technique in Developing Subject Indexing Languages" from Karnatak University, Dharwad.
Career
Dr. Prasad is senior faculty at Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC). He joined DRTC as a Lecturer on 4 June 1990.
Memberships and Association
Literary and scientific activities
Currently he is active in European Commissions FP7-FET project on Living Knowledge. He is Editor of the Preceedings of the International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries (ICSD-2007). He is also guest Editor of Online Information Review, V.32(4),2008, special edition on Semantic Web and Web Design.
Published Work
Peer reviewed articles in international Periodicals
Papers in Indian Periodicals
References
http://www.grl2020.net/uploads/position_papers/A.R.D.%20Prasad.pdf http://www.drtc.isibang.ac.in/DRTC/ardcv.html http://www.ignca.nic.in/PDF_data/kn_digital001_pdf_data/T2a_Development_Digital_Repository.pdf http://ir.inflibnet.ac.in/dxml/bitstream/handle/1944/551/323-329(cal%2007).pdf?sequence=1 http://crl.du.ac.in/ical09/invitations.pdf https://drtc.isibang.ac.in/bitstream/handle/1849/242/G_Member_and_sbscription.pdf?sequence=1
See also
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