Re: arsclist Cataloging

["George Brock-Nannestad" <pattac@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad

A lot of you have written about cataloguing, principles and 
philosophies, and practical matters. Nobody indicates having read 
the IASA Cataloguing rules, and I propose that that could be a 
suitable framework. In other words, read the f. manual!

In connection with my analysis of the total information content of 
e.g. a shellac pressing, I also adapted a programme for having all 
fields searchable, in which the output format would be defined as a 
"report", ordered any way you wanted. I found out that entering the 
data would take 3-4 minutes per side, and many think that life is 
too short for that. That was the rationale behind the Rigler-Deutsch 
index which used photographs of labels (alas, no label-surround 
matrix information, because there was no skewed light) and farmed 
the actual typing out to unskilled labour.

The time spent on retrieval is the sum of the time spent on 
recording information and the time used for searching. If enormous 
masses of material comes in, but the need for quick access is 
never huge - say 4 hours response time, then minimal cataloguing 
and correspondingly long manual searching time would still be 
economic. Very few systems are designed that way.

Kind regards,

George
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