The word "rollographie" simply doesn't exist and would be not easily
understandable for a lot of people.  The word "catalogue" can be used
for a lot of different things, but will not fit for an inventory, which
simply will show which items are kept.

In German a catalogue fits different things, the Sears & Roebuck catalogue
as well as a "scientific" inventory, which advances to a catalogue in
being "scientific".

Anyway, museums (in Europe) are using the expression "catalogue" for the
about 20 volumes of "Roman coins in British collections" or the "catalogue
of paintings in the Fitz-William Museum at Cambridge", which is much more
than a simple listing of paintings.  Now, how to name that child ?!

Regarding different spellings:  It is no problems with different spellings
of names.  In a database you simply add an entry as a reference, which is
necessary in anyway.

At the beginning of the century Skrjabin was latinised to [Scriabin or]
Scriabine, with an accent degut [grave'?] on the a; the French transcribe
it still different as we do in usual, the same with Tschaikowsky ...

On concert announcements and record labels Tschaikowsky is still written
this way, the east Germans write "Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski", the west
Germans mostly "Peter I. Tschaikowski"; this could go into the thousands.

Not to forget people like "Vandyck, Ernest".  This will be found in my
book (is it catalogue or not) under "Vandyck, Ernest van".  Looking for
"Dyck, Ernest van" you'll find a reference to "Vandyck".  Most European
readers will look first for the "Dyck", which was surely his original
name.

Michael von Zadora will be found under "Zadora", just because he wrote his
name this way.  Maybe his grandchildren (if ever existed) write themselves
"Vonzadora" or "VonZadora".  In a modern database you'll find the entry
anyway, written this or that way.

Respecting the librarians rules (of our libraries) it is not a problem
to make references or cross-references, like from "Tchaikowsky" to
"Tschaikowsky".  Those people looking for "T(s)chaikowski" I hope will
notice the similarities and find the way to the title.

Kind regards

Gerhard Dangel-Reese¶
Augustinermuseum Freiburg

 [ Editors note:
 [
 [ The noun "Discography" was coined by a French collector 60 years ago as
 [ the name of his catalog of jazz records.  It is a "bibliography of
 [ discs", and I find the name quite descriptive.  A bibliography is a
 [ history or description of books and manuscripts, with notices of the
 [ editions, dates of printing, et cetera.  A "Rollography" by similarity
 [ is a history and description of music rolls.
 [
 [ Matthew discussed the problem of leading articles in song names: "La
 [ Paloma", "The Mooch", etc.  Certainly the printed catalog list should
 [ show the article in the same position as on the roll label, but this
 [ requirement doesn't mean that the data base must store it this way.
 [ In deference to the computerized alphabetic sort routine, the article,
 [ for example, could easily be put in the previous field.
 [
 [ Robbie Rhodes