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  1. cataloging

    In library and information science, cataloging (US) or cataloguing (UK) is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as books, sound recordings, moving images, etc. Cataloging provides information such as author's 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 that sufficiently describes information resources, to enable users 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".

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  1. Cataloging

    Cataloging is the process of listing something for inclusion in a catalog. In library and information science, the process encompasses the production of bibliographic descriptions of books as well as other types of discovery tools for documents. Today cataloging study and practice has broadened and merged with that of metadata, increasingly associated with Resource Description and Access.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Cataloging

    Activities performed in the preparation of bibliographic records for CATALOGS. It is carried out according to a set of rules and contains information enabling the user to know what is available and where items can be found.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of cataloging in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of cataloging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of cataloging in a Sentence

  1. Walther Collection curator Brian Wallis:

    This is a way of cataloging a certain strata of society ... to divide society into those that are acceptable and those that are not.

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  • καταλογογράφησηGreek
  • ಕ್ಯಾಟಲಾಗ್ ಮಾಡುವುದುKannada
  • catalogaçãoPortuguese

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