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The art of telling chaos exactly where to sit and stay.
means The act of systematically describing, organizing, and listing items so anything can be found again on purpose.
from From Greek katalogos, a counting-down list, via kata- (completely) plus legein (to gather, to say) — literally reckoning everything up.
Library spineDewey Decimal sorts millions using ten little buckets.
Original metadataPredates databases by roughly two thousand years.
British spellingDoubles the L: cataloguing, same fussy precision.