Analysis of the Federal Cataloging System and COSATI (Committee on Scientific and Technical Information) Cataloging

摘要

This paper is a comparative analysis of the cataloging processes done by the Defense Logistics Services Center (DLSC) and the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). The Federal Catalog System used by DLSC was developed for the cataloging of supply items and materiel management; the COSATI System used by DTIC is for the cataloging of technical reports and techni cal bibliographic data. Major differences were found betwee n the two systems including the materials, the end user, the type of information needed, and the information usage. Originator-supplied keywords: Information Processing, Cataloging, Descriptive Cataloging, Formats, Standardization, Information Retrieval, Data fields, Supply Items, Documents.