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Articles on automated cataloging, catalog formats and use cases.
How to put book covers in the public catalog
How to put book covers in the Janium 2027 public catalog: with the ISBN, the system looks up the cover in Open Library and Google Books and attaches it to the record. It does not replace a cover already in the system. Without an ISBN there is no automatic lookup.
How to process documents with AI without exposing personal data
How to process documents with AI without exposing personal data: catalog locally, with nothing leaving, or send to the cloud a version where person identifiers have already been replaced. Where that protection reaches and where it does not.
How an archival file or a book record is shown in the OPAC
How an archival file or a book record is shown in the Janium 2027 OPAC: short fields stay in a list, long notes read as a paragraph, and a file with many notes switches entirely to that layout. An ISAD-G record is not presented the same way as a three-field book.
How to catalog cards in another language without translating titles or names
How to catalog material in another language without translating titles or names: Collect translates descriptive vocabulary —object type, technique, subject— and leaves intact the work’s title, proper names, dates, inscriptions and identifiers. The translated title is stored as an alternative title with its language.
When to use Dublin Core and where it falls short
When to use Dublin Core to describe a resource —its fifteen elements and the extended version (DCMI Terms)— and where it falls short against MARC or ISAD-G. How Collect produces Dublin Core with identifier protection and selective translation of vocabulary.
How to search the catalog by relevance, plurals and typos
How keyword search in Janium 2027 can rank by relevance, recognize plurals and derived forms, ignore accents when matching and suggest the closest term when there is no exact hit. The inverted index remains the default.
How to generate MARC21 and UNIMARC records with AI
How Janium Collect generates MARC21 and UNIMARC records with AI, when each is used, and how it delivers that record as MarcEdit text, MARCXML, binary MARC or FLAT, according to what the receiving catalog expects.
Janium 2027 is now available
Janium 2027 adds a relevance-ranked search engine, file display in the OPAC, background inventory, an email sign-in code and password expiry.
From the image and the catalog card to the record
How to combine an object's image and its catalog card to catalog: Collect takes what is visible in the reproduction and the documentary data from the card, and produces a record. What neither source supports is not presented as verified.