collation
Sign in to saveCollation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. Many systems of collation are based on numerical order or alphabetical order, or extensions and combinations thereof. Collation is a fundamental element of most office filing systems, library catalogs, and reference books.
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13 sectionsContents
- Ordering
- Numerical and chronological
- Alphabetical
- Root sorting
- Radical-and-stroke sorting
- Automation
- Sort keys
- Issues with numbers
- Labeling of ordered items
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. Many systems of collation are based on numerical order or alphabetical order, or extensions and combinations thereof. Collation is a fundamental element of most office filing systems, library catalogs, and reference books.
Collation differs from classification in that the classes themselves are not necessarily ordered. However, even if the order of the classes is irrelevant, the identifiers of the classes may be members of an ordered set, allowing a sorting algorithm to arrange the items by class.