The fundamental principle of order in the library catalogue is the
authorship principle, which serves as the organizing node of an
alphabetico-classed system, in which “texts” of “works” are organized
first alphabetically by uniform title of the progenitor work and
then are subarranged using titles for variant instantiations, under
the heading for an “author.” We analyze case studies of entries from
(1) the first documented imperial library catalogue, the Seven Epitomes
(Qilue [七略]), in China; (2) Abelard’s Works, which featured
prominently in the 1848 testimony of Antonio Panizzi; and (3)The
French Chef and the large family of instantiated works associated with
it. Our analysis shows that the catalogue typically contains many
large superwork sets. A more pragmatic approach to the design of
catalogues is to array descriptions of resources in relation to the
superwork sets to which they might belong. In all cases, a multidimensional
faceted arrangement incorporating ideational nodes
from the universe of recorded knowledge holds promise for greatly
enhanced retrieval capability.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/34595
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2012.0026
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