Catalog

Catalog in Legal Information Retrieval

The following is a basic concept of Catalog in relation to information retrieval. In addition to this, Catalog may be applied to legal texts, including case law, legislation and scholarly works. A catalog is an index for a particular collection of messages (plus texts and documentary units) or of objects (such as a mail order catalog of clothing or a museums exhibition catalog). A union catalog is an index for several collections. Cataloging is the process of creating a catalog, so it is a type of indexing.