• @CULT AND INDEX DATA

    Index Data and @Cult have announced that they intend to work together to offer a consolidated set of solutions that bring together both companies' activities and expertise in service of the international library community.

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  • Share Family – Linked Data Environment

    We take care of the future of catalogs

    The Share Family supports libraries, archives and museums in the transition from traditional cataloguing environments to innovative models to facilitate the cataloguing, exposition and discovery of bibliographic records in linked data

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  • Casalini Libri and @Cult

    Casalini Libri joins forces with its historic partner @Cult. The union both strengthens and furthers the Casalini mission to promote the dissemination of culture through increasingly advanced services to libraries, institutions and publishers

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  • Oh my code!

    We write code to develop compliant tools with digital transformation.

    We believe in the Software and in who will use it.

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    Fondata da Mario Casalini nel 1958, Casalini Libri è oggi uno dei principali fornitori di pubblicazioni provenienti da tutta l'Europa mediterranea a biblioteche e istituzioni di tutto il mondo.
    Fedeli alla tradizione e votati all'innovazione, attualmente lavoriamo con oltre 3.000 biblioteche e istituzioni, e più di 5.500 editori provenienti da oltre 40 paesi.

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    In collaboration with partners and communities of international reference,

    we develop software in step with the future for the innovation of libraries, museums and archives

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    OLISuite AND INNOVATIVE RDA STANDARD

    OLISuite is the LMS developed by @CULT to manage the entire workflow of libraries and archives: from the selection of material, cataloguing and distribution to loaning and web publishing.

    Particularly attentive to the evolution of the cataloguing world and referring to the now famous slogan "the library outside of itself", which refers to the concept of seeking potential users wherever they are located (above all on the web), OLISuite's cataloguing form opens into the new RDA (Resource Description and Access) standard.

    It is an innovative international code for the description of and access to resources, which becomes a tool for the entire bibliographic universe and the new digital environment, where resources are managed by a large and diverse community of publishers, subjects that control and hold the rights to distribution and use, libraries and distributors and institutions (libraries, archives, museums, producers of databases and repositories, bibliographic agencies) that collect, preserve and make such resources accessible.

    Anchored in the FRBR and FRAD conceptual models and the ICP, International Cataloguing Principles, RDA takes from these an approach to the analysis of these entities / relationships, terminology, attention to the work rather than to the specific publication (and hence the size or informational message itself, wherever and however it is stored or expressed) and the absolute centrality of user interest, in whose name each cataloguing decision is made.

    To the objectives to find, identify, select and obtain, borrowed from FRBR and FRAD models, RDA adds the aim to browse data and metadata in the large bibliographic universe in a manner widely prevalent among web users.

    This, along with other specific elements of the new standard, make it an indispensable tool to ensure that that which is produced by libraries and all cultural and memory institutions becomes part of the web and not just on the web!

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    06/02/2023

    Look beyond - Subject indexing of non-book resources

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