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Cataloguing and Indexing

This library discipline focuses on labelling (‘tagging’) information objects, or their directory entries, with the ‘concepts’ that are discussed within them, and physical objects with the ‘concepts’ they can be classified as being an instance of (OBC Topic 3).  It has a long-standing and rich set of best practices.  Increasingly, software is used to automate this activity with the most successful attempts supporting close collaboration between people and the software to do the job.  ‘Text (Data) Mining’ is a term often applied to this type of software.