Derek Austin (11 August 1921 – 22 May 2001) was a British librarian and author.
He was also a developer of innovative digital cataloguing systems and the creator of the PRECIS indexing language in 1974, which was used worldwide and for the British National Bibliography.
...As by-products of his indexing theories he worked out drafts that in the mid-1980s were accepted as British and International Standards for examining documents, and for establishing multilingual and monolingual thesauri".
[2] After 1974, Austin was head of the Subject System Office, The British Library.
[4] Austin was a supernumerary Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford.