Security barriers are important for an organization to protect assets. Barriers are not good when they discourage, sharing and other forms of positive business activity. Cataloging is the systematic organization of information, data, or materials so that they can retrieved when the requester needs them. Cataloging follows rules and practices to enable users to understand the system. Putting words in alphabetical order in a dictionary or index is one example of cataloging.
Alphabetical order has rules so that the lexicographer and the end user can find words.
A library cataloger follows rules established by national and global organizations. The rules are flexible enough to enable interpretation and localization. Explicit Knowledge is the information and knowledge that has been captured and cataloged and ready for people to use. Sometimes within businesses the term, taxonomy, is used for the the classification of knowledge. A good taxonomy or catalog enables the same knowledge to be accessed via multiple paths.