inventory

An inventory is a procedure that is used very frequently in everyday life , politics , business , technology and science . It is a documented examination of a large number of individual objects with regard to one or more specific characteristics , with the aim of completeness. The characteristics to be determined and the procedure can be specified by legislation , by institutions, by groups of people or by individual persons . It can be carried out by institutions, groups of people or individuals. The application of the method to a single item is called detection or testing .

Extensive inventories require rules for flow control , i. H. for the individual work steps and the order of acquisition. The steps involved require documentation. Forms of documentation are primarily lists , tables , forms , databases , maps or plans . The representation of the individual features can thereby numerically , by a description with free-written text or by using a controlled vocabulary if it does not, a graphic is provided representation.

The acquisition takes place once over a certain period of time, in periodic or irregular repetition or continuously. In the event of a single or repeated entry, it will end on a certain key date . In the case of continuous recording, as is mainly done in databases, the result can be determined at any point in time.

The result of the inventory is the determination of the inventory.

designation

Inventories are given special terms in general and in certain areas of law and sciences, e.g. B.

• Survey in the demoscopy
• Data acquisition in information technology
• Survey in statistics
• Inventory in art history and monument law
• Inventory in commercial law and forestry
• Cataloging in library science
• Classification
• Registration
• Distortion in archival science

Objects

From an inventory everything can be recorded that can be described by characteristics, i. H. everything that is denoted by the general expressions such as entity , object, object, thing or thing.

presentation

Either all or only a certain number of features of the recorded entities can be presented as forms of presentation of the result of the inventory. The main considerations are:

• Specifying a number
• text
• Directory , inventory , register, repertory
• table
• report
• Map, plan
• Geographic information system

These forms are used either exclusively or in addition to one another. They are given in an ordered or sorted form. Possible methods of ordering are:

• Alphabetical sorting
• Chronological sorting
• hierarchical order
• Numerical sorting
• Topographic order
• Systematic structure.

aims

Above all, an inventory can be the basis for one or more of the following goals:

• scientific investigations
• political decisions
• economic decisions
• Opinion formation
• Protection of the captured entities
• Appraisal , etc. a. for tax purposes
• Determination of needs
• Legal certainty
• Avoidance of communication problems

Examples

Due to legislation:

• Monument law: inventory
• Inheritance law : estate register
• Commercial law: inventory
• Medicine : International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
• Statistics: official statistics
• Environmental protection : inventory of water bodies according to Art. 5 and 6 of the EU Water Framework Directive

According to scientific specifications:

• Archeology : Findings
• Archival science: archival listing
• Library Science: Cataloging
• Biogeography : distribution area
• Demoscopy: survey
• documentation
• History : collection of sources
• Art history and monument law: inventory
• Medicine: nosology
• Philology : Lexicography
• Statistics: survey
• Science: state of research

For economic purposes:

• Trade : inventory
• Business management : warehousing
• Forestry: Stock and forest inventory .

For political purposes:

• Inventory of the digitization of cultural assets and fields of action of the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems with funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, 2006
• Inventory and evaluation of offers in the field of parent education on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth, 2006
• Inventory in education, career and employment advice and development of basic quality standards on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, 2007

According to technical specifications:

• In surveying , the entire survey of a construction project carried out in one go - for example as a basis for planning or after its completion - is referred to as an inventory . Most an inventory plan in the scale 1: 500 or 1: prepared 1000 where detailed plans in 1: 200 or are conventional 250th In addition to the buildings, the survey usually also includes important lines for energy supply , canals , masts and so on and the surrounding area and is connected to the state coordinate system if necessary .
• The cadastral surveying of buildings also documents an inventory. In contrast, with other cadastral surveys, property boundaries are created or re-marked, thereby changing the inventory.
• The term inventory is occasionally used for topographical recordings (detailed measurements of the terrain). Artificial objects ( traffic routes , buildings and so on) are also included in the plans, the scales are usually smaller than previously indicated (approx. 1: 1000).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Environment Agency: Water, Drinking Water and Water Protection, Results of the 2004 inventory in Germany ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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