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n. (alternative form of cataloguing English) vb. (present participle of catalog English)
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In library and information science, cataloging (or cataloguing) is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as books, sound recordings, moving images, etc. Cataloging provides information such as creator names, titles, and subject terms that describe resources, typically through the creation of bibliographic records. The records serve as surrogates for the stored information resources. Since the 1970s these metadata are in machine-readable form and are indexed by information retrieval tools, such as bibliographic databases or search engines. While typically the cataloging process results in the production of library catalogs, it also produces other types of discovery tools for documents and collections.
Bibliographic control provides the philosophical basis of cataloging, defining the rules for sufficiently describing information resources to enable users to find and select the most appropriate resource. A cataloger is an individual responsible for the processes of description, subject analysis, classification, and authority control of library materials. Catalogers serve as the "foundation of all library service, as they are the ones who organize information in such a way as to make it easily accessible".
Usage examples of "cataloging".
ArtInts spent years cataloging the contents of the surviving portion of the Dark Museum, and there is only one book treated as an exhibit of suppressed technology in the entire collection.
Mentally, he was cataloging the remnants of stock, matching each item with a likely buyer.
I have a nose for finding special papers, and I invented my own cataloging system.
G Tilwyn spent the entire day at the library with Figgis, cataloging and shelving books and helping the scholars from Marn locate history texts.
There were dozens of manuscripts that still needed cataloging and his eyes blurred from lack of sleep.
A large group of local farm children had come for Figgis' weakly reading class, as well as a contingent of educators from Reec who had arrived to study the library's elaborate cataloging system, a mathematical wonder Figgis himself had devised.
The creamy mixture of milk, honey, and eggs melted on Alain's lips like nectar, and he thought that perhaps he could endure another entire poem cataloging the dead emperor's virtues if only he could make room in his belly for several more helpings of custard.
That designation is obsolete, and the new catalogings don't hook it in with that planet because Libby and I decided to toss in a joker.