misfile

In digital document management implementations that use computer-based indexing, data entry errors are the counterparts of misfiles. While effective methods, such as double-keying of information, are available for error detection and correction, they are not incorporated into all data entry operations.

"If you have somebody who misfiles one prescription and puts it under S instead of T, you would literally have to go through all of these drawers from top to bottom trying to find it."

Rather than having the piles of paper and the misfiles and the hunting down of paper, it was all at their fingertips.

As Jean Tener points out in the "Archival Introduction" to each volume, the inventories are arranged according to standard archival methodology, by series, sub-series, and file, with an attempt to maintain original order wherever possible: "only the most blatant misfiles being corrected." As all bibliographers, textual scholars, and book historians well know, original order is essential for anyone attempting to date undated manuscripts and develop insights into the literary context in which any particular work was produced.

Misfiles and missing files are no longer an issue as many people can view the same record on the system.

Inquiry response time dramatically improved, our staff members were free to work on other tasks and projects, misfiles were virtually eliminated, the plans to rent an additional storage space were scrapped, and productivity was improved.

If misfiles are not removed, the centroid's location gradually drifts.