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Articles on automated cataloging, catalog formats and use cases.
Numismatics and securities: cataloging banknotes, coins, bonds and shares from the inventory
Janium Collect turns the inventory of a numismatic collection, in CSV or Excel, into one ISAD-G record per piece: it keeps what the specialist already noted, builds the title and the date from it, and adds the context of the issue marked as generated text.
Cataloging a photograph collection: the image, its physical support and its catalog card
Janium Collect catalogs historical photographs in ISAD-G or Dublin Core: it describes what is seen, separates the physical support from what is pictured, incorporates the inventory data and, when there is no documented date, estimates it and marks it as approximate.
Cataloging a periodicals collection: newspapers and serial publications
Janium Collect catalogs historical newspapers and magazines from spreadsheet inventories, from scans or from both at once, in ISAD-G with the hierarchy of the collection or in MARC21 as a serial. What the institution decides and where to review.
Where material enters Collect: folders, cloud, email and the capture app
Janium Collect catalogs what the institution leaves in its input sources: a folder, an SFTP server, Google Drive, SharePoint, Zoho WorkDrive, a mailbox, a web form or the Janium capture app. Each folder is tied to a material type, and from the point of entry everything follows the same path to the record.
Cataloging in front of the collection with the Janium capture app
The Janium capture app lets you catalog with the item in front of you, from a phone, a tablet or the browser of a desktop computer. You can take only photographs and create the holdings later in Janium, or enter the holdings in the app as well; Janium Collect turns each submission into a record.
Data injection: fixed fields, holdings and tags that bypass the model
The library, the collection, the 852 holdings, the fixed tags and the default values are already known to the institution before the document is read. Janium Collect seeds them the same way in every record, without asking the language model for them, and leaves to the model what has to be read from the document.
An art collection and its three layers: the work, its reproduction and the book
In a collection of paintings, murals and works on paper, each work arrives with the photograph that reproduces it and the book where it was published. Janium Collect describes the work in CDWA from the image and the catalog card, and keeps each layer in its place.
The data in a contract, in fields
Janium Collect reads contracts, minutes and reports and extracts into fields the parties, clauses, obligations, guarantees, amounts and expiring dates, with each name always written the same way. The reading of a clause is flagged so that someone with legal judgment can confirm it.
Records of a university library
A new title on the vendor's list goes into the catalog in MARC21. A final-year project can be deposited in Dublin Core and stay out of the catalog. Collect proposes the record from the row or the PDF, and a cataloger reviews it before loading.