Qulto | Field type Academic institutes

Qulto RI on NRDIO site

Posted on: January 21st, 2023 by Papp Ildikó

We are visible! 👀 Proud to have the Qulto Research Infrastructure been put up on the map, among the Excellent Research Infrastructures and Infrastructure Clusters in Hungary.

The Qulto Research Infrastructure (Qulto RI) is a distributed and virtual, domain-independent research infrastructure that provides essential support for the digitization, storage, organization, retrieval, publication, reuse, and search for relevant sources and plagiarism of higher education and research content in Hungary.

Main pillars of the Qulto RI are
🗸 Digitize
🗸 Discovery
🗸 SimilR
🗸 Repo

Want to have more insight into the collaboration of Qulto and ELTE DH, and the services offered by the connected infrastructures? Visit here!

Széchenyi István University

Posted on: August 15th, 2022 by akovacstapai

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The aim of the project was to deliver and implement an integrated library system at the Széchenyi István University Library that is modern, future-proof, and that contributes to the library’s ability to meet the growing expectations, and effectively supports the work of librarians and helps serve the needs of students, teachers and researchers.

Repo

Posted on: April 28th, 2022 by akovacstapai

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Qulto Repo is a publishing repository based on the open source DSpace 7 software, which has gained popularity in recent years, especially among public education and public collections institutions. Its popularity has been mainly due to its relative ease of use, customisability and operability.

Repository implementations aim at providing a repository for uploaded media (text documents, images, videos, audio files – mainly non-proprietary content). The service platform is usually the open access catalogue of the public collection (OPAC3). If required, some repositories can be used independently (e.g. DSpace, EPrints), as well. With this module, your institution can manage its digital content with ease. All content can be associated with standard descriptive elements that facilitate searchability and ensure interoperability between different systems. Our solution also supports full-text indexing and search to ensure maximum accessibility and searchability.

In addition to the basic DSpace digital object repository functionality, Qulto Repo has add-ons such as media playback implemented by Qulto developers, record cloning and movement between collections, and Qulto Annotate for group annotation and tagging of PDF documents.

Main features:

hierarchical management of collections
hierarchical record management
multi-level authority management
creation of custom forms
OAI-PMH output and REST API
media upload, and storage
serving uploaded content to public catalogs
display metadata from catalogs

Digitize

Posted on: April 28th, 2022 by akovacstapai

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Qulto Digitize is a mass digitisation framework that provides solution for public collections, the general public and individual users as well for collaborative processing, grouping and repository management of text and image content. The main advantage of the framework is that it eliminates the need for both the use of other software and applications, and the cumbersome movement of files to be processed. Besides, it enables multi-user workflows.

Our module allows you to create, register, manage and share digital assets and their associated metadata with broad range of audiences. Furthermore, it also provides secure storage of master files, creation of on-demand converted versions, optical character recognition (OCR), watermarking and digital rights management (DRM) of files.

We support the digitisation of books, journals and analogue copies with workflows that make the collaborative work of consortium members transparent. Our system also provides a tool to manage the division of labour and the sharing of income and costs. Digitize is able to export and import METS-compliant digital objects and their metadata; we support digitisation processes with character recognition software; and detailed digitisation allows users to create independent e-documents from pieces of complete works. We can also record legal information and provide digital protection (DRM) for the works. Our system includes native, master and original files, the latter being generated automatically.

Groups of people working with digital objects – let them be university work groups, teachers, e-learning professionals or researcher – need an online platform where they can work on packages of files together in a way that will require them to move those files as infrequently as possible.

Main features

Organize your files into packages
Structure your packages into folders and sub-folders
Search and filter your packages
OCR images and PDFs
Proofread and edit OCR results
Transcribe handwritten documents
Create searchable PDFs
Generate thumbnail images
Put watermarks on your images
Resize and crop your images
Add metadata to your package
Publish your files on record pages that you either make fully public or accessible only to logged in users
Invite people to view and / or edit your packages.

For more details and registration visit here!

Discovery

Posted on: February 7th, 2022 by akovacstapai

A product that supports the professional work of libraries and higher education institutions, and can be used to effectively support the search activities of readers, students, teachers and researchers.

Do you need a solution for searching a common index of multiple data sources (catalogs, repositories, online databases, etc.)? Discovery provides a common online interface to search library catalogs, full-text repository content, research data, online articles, e-publications and eLearning materials. The Discovery catalog can be customised in the same way as public collections’ own catalogs, i.e. results from multiple sources are organised into a common list of results based on common relevance, which can be sorted and filtered together.

The information search facilities are complemented by patron features (e.g. renewals, reservations, etc.) and a researcher dashboard (subject tracking, bibliographic lists, and so on).

SimilR

Posted on: January 24th, 2022 by akovacstapai

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Qulto SimilR is a software for finding text similarities between text documents, which can be hosted locally or as a cloud service.

Its core task is to index theses held by higher education institutions and other scientific content available to us for comparison. The comparison is based on measuring similarities between sections and paragraphs of a document.

We can use the automated comparison of documents to automatically identify suspected cases of plagiarism. The software generates a preliminary report on cases above the tolerance threshold, which can be used in the evaluation and decision-making processes. The document to be detected can be uploaded to a central web interface, which is then also used to view the results. Institutional content is processed locally, avoiding the copyright problems typically encountered by plagiarism detection tools. Our innovative business model also generates revenue for the collaborating stakeholders (institutions) based on the frequency of use of their relevant documents.

It allows multiple institutional and individual users to perform simultaneous analyses on individual, shared and web corpora. In addition, Qulto SimilR offers the possibility of customising the analysis and filtering parameters, taking into account the specificities of the texts in terms of genre, form and subject

By using SimilR, documents in Hungarian, protected by institutional and copyright law, will not be stored on foreign servers or owned by foreign companies.

Recommended for the work of higher education institutions, academics and students, professionals and doctoral students, content producers and content providers.

Main features

plagiarism detection
text similarity analysis

The software underwent a minor upgrade in 2022, making its interface more simple, clear and user-friendly.

eCard

Posted on: January 24th, 2022 by akovacstapai

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Qulto eCard mobile application, available in 5 different languages (Hungarian, English, Romanian, Serbian and Slovakian), aims to make as many ‘library issues’ as possible accessible, transparent and manageable in one place. The application is suitable for managing multiple reader’s cards at the same time, thus offering an easy-to-use, user-friendly solution for cases where one is a registered user of several libraries, but also for cases where the user wants to view and manage the cards of his family members together in one application.

Users can manage their library transactions, such as renewals, reservations, checking deadlines and debts, on their own mobile phones. The app also sends notifications of due deadlines. As a convenience, they can also use the ‘Libraries’ feature to see on the embedded map which library is closest to them. In some libraries, you can also use the patron’s card displayed in the app as a virtual patron’s card to enter the library.

As of today, readers of 163 institutions using Qulto Library integrated library system has the opportunity to handle their library-related issues with the help of eCard mobile app.

Main features

managing patron’s cards (reviewing loans – past ones, as well – and debts, reservations, renewals)
‘merged’ reader card – in case one is a member of several branch libraries of the same institution
sort reader cards, and set the visibility of reader cards listed on the main page
notification management (mobile notification about current tasks, e.g. expiring loans, available reservations, expiry of enrolment)
showing due fees of expired loans
mobile library card
searching library catalogs, saving results (to place on virtual shelf)
adding stock requests
selecting a specific locker to place the requested books in
extended search possibility (z39.50)
calendar (overview of deadlines, expiry dates, opening hours, etc.)
contact to libraries – map search with libraries in the country using Qulto Library system
displaying institution data by branch libraries
floor plan feature – schematic layout of a specific room to help users find their requested books
unique look of reader cards adapted to the library’s visual design
default library displayed on the Catalog page:
- it is the library issuing the specific reader card (if initiated from the Reader card page)
- it is the last searched library or the one defined in the Settings menu (if initiated from the main menu)

Further planned features

initiating loan with mobile
online payment
displaying library e-mail notifications
displaying book covers
user statistics available to institutions
book recommendations
full-text display for e-books in the catalog
development of institutional admin interface

EasyThesis

Posted on: January 24th, 2022 by Papp Ildikó

EasyThesis is a thesis management module that supports the entire process of submission, review and assessment of theses, working in conjunction with the Neptun online education system on the one hand and the institutional Discovery system on the other. It offers students a solution for recording thesis data and uploading the files required for submission. In the EasyThesis module, supervisors can carry out proofreading and checks, while opponents can perform the evaluation of works. Successfully defended theses can be automatically transferred to the institutional repository and made searchable in the institutional Discovery interface.

Main features

student uploading of theses
supporting the process of proofreading and evaluation of theses
cooperation with the Neptun education system
role-based customizable access rights management
OAI link to institutional Discovery

Supports the thesis submission, review and assessment process. It provides the link between the education system, the repository and the institutional Discovery system.

Qulto Days

Posted on: February 3rd, 2021 by akovacstapai

Qulto Days 2021

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
(W. Churchill)

Join us live for the professional event on February 3 in Hungarian and / or on February 4 in English, where we will talk about exciting projects and current topics. Participation is free, you can register on the form available at the following link: https://tiny.pl/r1rr3

According to our plans, the event will be organized with the help of the Zoom application, the link required for connection will be sent to the registrants in the days before the event.We look forward to hearing from you!
Join our iconic event straight from your couch!:)

More information and full agenda can be found here

Qulto Manage

Posted on: December 15th, 2020 by akovacstapai

Qulto Manage not only helps you to manage your institution as a whole, but also to manage collections, documentation, other information and institutional content. The introduction of products belonging to Manage is the first step towards building the Qulto Ecosystem within an institution.

Integrated Qulto systems for the management of museums, libraries or other cultural institutions allow the creation of a unified knowledge base to start your adventures in the stories about different people, objects or places. Qulto Manage is the initial step in the sustainable development of an institution, with transparency, openness and integrity in mind.

What will your institution gain after implementing a collection management software?

Standardized database.
A coherent and transparent catalog of all objects and entities available to all employees and additionally to external users with proper rights.
The ability to quick and direct collections publication with additional possibilities to share data with external aggregators or portals.
Creating complex queries, saving results and developing thematic groups of objects.
Assistance in conducting the inventories.
A place to store and manage all documentation: photos, cards, protocols, etc. with the possibility of exporting or printing out.
Conversion and migration of old databases.
Assistance in carrying out digitization and conservation.
The systems make it easier to control the flow of information between departments, branches and employees, monitoring of activities performed in the software, generating work reports and statistics. Additionally, some functionalities in the systems are tailored to the needs of the institution, as each is different and unique. It can be concluded that every system is exceptional and tailor-made.

Our systems make it easy to record the flow of information between your institution’s departments, branches and staff, to monitor activities within the software, and to generate reports and statistics. In addition, some of its functions and modules can be adapted to the specific needs of the institution. Consequently, all our systems are customised.

QULTO LIBRARY

Integrated library system

Our Qulto Library brand will help any library looking for a solution to process, manage, digitize, share or support the workflow of its collections. Our integrated system simplify data management, database building, digitization and online sharing of public information, freeing up valuable time for your institution’s staff.

Main features

Cataloging
Circulation
Acquisition
Serials
Media module
Statistics module
RFID

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Qulto Days 2021

QULTO LIBRARY

QULTO MUSEUM

QULTO ARCHIVE

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FURTHER AVAILABLE SOLUTIONS

Digitize

SimilR

Repo

EasyThesis

ePublisher

Discovery

ReCatalog

eCard

CityConquest

Storytelling

Education

Q360

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Qulto Presenter

Microsoft Hololens

VR headset

Holobox

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