Subject Cataloging by Norwegian Cataloging Agencies
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This article reviews the practices of subject assignment by the
two main Norwegian cataloging agencies serving the public
library domain, Biblioteksentralen and Bokbasen, analyzing
47,235 records representing media cataloged by both agencies,
published between 2012 and 2019. In addition to descriptive
statistics representing these practices, we apply the Panofsky/
Shatford model, previously used in the analysis of artworks and
images, to distinguish aspects of these practices associated
with levels of meaning. We find that Biblioteksentralen tends to
use more abstract terms in their descriptions, while Bokbasen
tends to use more general terms.