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Articles on automated cataloging, catalog formats and use cases.
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.
A certificate of no debt in Word
Janium 2027 can issue the certificate of no debt as a Word document, in addition to HTML. One template covers the whole system, and each library can use its own.
Loan and hold notices in the library's own words
In Janium 2027 the library writes the greeting, the table and the closing of three circulation notices: a loan about to fall due, a hold ready for pickup, and a hold lent to someone else. If the library does not write its own, the text that ships with the system is used.
Cataloging from lists and spreadsheets
An Excel sheet already has the data written in each column. Collect carries it into the record and, if the row only names the work, completes the rest and marks what it added.
A batch inventory keeps going after the browser closes
In Janium 2027 a batch inventory is not canceled if the browser is closed or the connection drops. The job stays on the server, the page shows the phase, and another inventory cannot start until this one is finished.
Email code and password expiry in Janium
Janium 2027 can ask for a six-digit code from anyone who has email on the profile, and a new password when the period ends. With no email, sign-in stays as it is.
Signature of the cataloged PDF (NOM-151 and eIDAS)
Collect signs the PDF being cataloged with PKCS#7 and, if a time-stamping authority is available, an RFC 3161 timestamp. What that signature is, what it proves, and what NOM-151, LFEA and eIDAS require.