Abstract
The second objective of the catalog, as defined by the Paris Agreement of 1961, is to show which of a particular are in a library. What this should mean in practice is unclear; the statement is in need of interpretation. Two interpretations are contrasted: that of Akos Domanovszky and a new three-stage interpretation. Domanovszky's interpretation represents current standard practice, in which most works are ignored in the catalog, and editions of a work need have little in common other than descent from a common origin. The proposed alternative calls for extensive analysis of serials and collections, and for explicit identification of publications with identical textual content. Assembly of editions of a work is seen as classification of texts on the basis of a changeable set of intertextual relationships.
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