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==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ||
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+ | (see also [[library notes]] ) | ||
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* ISBN -> BibTeX with Ottobib: http:// | * ISBN -> BibTeX with Ottobib: http:// | ||
* zotero | * zotero | ||
+ | * see also -> https:// | ||
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+ | A library -- including its physical and digital arrangement and cataloguing system -- should aspire to be simple, elegant, and beautiful. Visitors should be able both to browse and search in the greatest ease and comfort. A library thus becomes a pataphor for the art of living itself. I have striven to follow these principles in approaching the sometimes daunting task of coming to terms with, managing and (re)organising the FoAM archive. | ||
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+ | --- //Armoracio " | ||
=== Digital cataloguing === | === Digital cataloguing === | ||
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* manually entering and amending data in Zotero is necessary for a number of items and a good way to ensure accurate and useful information, | * manually entering and amending data in Zotero is necessary for a number of items and a good way to ensure accurate and useful information, | ||
- | === Preterite prolegomena === | ||
- | This particular collection, where each book can in principle lurk at the interstices of the connection of everything to everything else, demonstrates most acutely the issue with filing items according to a single -- or even predominant -- topic or subject area. At the same time, with items digitally catalogued | + | === Ongoing notes and to-dos === |
- | A library -- including its physical and digital arrangement and cataloguing system -- should aspire to be simple, elegant, and beautiful. Visitors should be able both to browse and search in the greatest ease and comfort. A library thus becomes a pataphor for the art of living itself. I have striven | + | * there are so many yearbooks, publications accompanying exhibitions, conference papers, extended brochures, etc. etc. which are not quite periodicals and not quite books: |
+ | * sort and determine storage for ephemera | ||
+ | * catalogue and shelve readers/ | ||
+ | * go through remaining files and buckets, sorting into applicable areas | ||
+ | * cleaning up and tagging of the digital catalogue | ||
- | --- //Armoracio " | + | * cataloguing the journals/magazines: Zotero is more geared to cataloging individual references (e.g. particular articles) rather than whole issues of periodicals: |