cataloguing

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A graduate program in archival science at Pratt helped him gather focus, while turning him on to the infinite history of sound data and cataloguing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

That cataloguing is indispensable, but the words and concepts we use for it matter.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025

I woke up the next morning, slightly panicked, cataloguing in my head how I would need to freeze and label the meat and seafood so it doesn’t go bad before we use it all.

From Salon • May 1, 2025

The rare manuscript - dated between 1830 and 1835 - was discovered by curator Robinson McClellan while he was cataloguing new collections.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2024

Stopping before the narrow garage, he sniffed the fumes from Paradise with great sensory pleasure, the protruding hairs in his nostrils analyzing, cataloguing, categorizing, and classifying the distinct odors of hot dog, mustard, and lubricant.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole