organisation nationality profession birth_date article_title name occupation alma_mater
drtc indian professor 18 july 1954 a. r. d. prasad
 dr. a.r.d. prasad teaching karnatak university
a. r. d. prasad

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 -lrb- drtc -rrb- , 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 specialisation 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 technology , free and open source software etc. .
his other area of interests are mythology , buddhism , philosophy and indian history .
he is pioneer in promotion and development of open-source software used in libraries and information centres in india , open access -lrb- publishing -rrb- and open access movement .
he is visiting faculty of university of trento , italy .
