cataloguers
Organizers of collections
Cataloguers are people who organize items into systematic lists or databases.
The term appears most often in library and archival contexts, where cataloguers classify books, documents, or artifacts according to standardized systems: The cataloguers spent months processing the estate's papers.
Also spelled catalogers.
Science of categorical arrangement
- DeweyLibrary classification pioneer
- categorizationArranging into groups
- subjectsAreas of study
- genresCategories of creative work
indexing · thesaurus · ontology · metadata · bibliography · cross-referencing · systematics · nomenclature
Handwritten or typed originals
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- collectionsGathered groups of items
- repositoryPlace for storing things
filing · inventory · heritage · ephemera · parchment · chronicles · provenance · accession
Compilers of publication records
- indexersThose who organize references
- archivistsKeepers of historical documents
- curatorsCollection caretakers
- conservatorsPreservation and repair experts
taxonomy
Science of categorical arrangement
- DeweyLibrary classification pioneer
- categorizationArranging into groups
- subjectsAreas of study
genres · indexing · thesaurus · ontology · metadata · bibliography · cross-referencing · systematics · nomenclature · codification
manuscripts
Handwritten or typed originals
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- collectionsGathered groups of items
repository · filing · inventory · heritage · ephemera · parchment · chronicles · provenance · accession · incunabula
bibliographers
Compilers of publication records
- indexersThose who organize references
- archivistsKeepers of historical documents
- curatorsCollection caretakers
query
Request for information
fields · search · storage · retrieval · entities · relationships · normalization · schema · migration
cataloguersbrowsers
Web navigation programs
searchers · users · end users · readers · researchers
- card catalogueLibrary's paper database
- library cataloguesOrganized records of holdings
- back catalogueArtist's complete previous output
- seed cataloguesPublications listing available plants
- auction catalogueList of items up for bid
- exhibition cataloguePublication documenting displayed artworks