Angers, February 2, 2026 – 10:00 AM —In 2025, AureXus continued to develop its services, with increased integration of Artificial Intelligence across all its activities, particularly in AI-assisted inventory control and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR).
The MEDUSA platform also benefited from new features and technical improvements, including: step-by-step workflow tracking, offering real-time visualization of document progress through each processing stage to rapidly address bottlenecks, smart alerts and notifications and Intelligent image preloading, allowing smooth navigation by anticipating the high-definition loading of neighboring images.
The year was also marked by several marketing and business development initiatives, including participation in the AAF trade show in Rennes, where AureXus showcased its archive digitization and indexing services and presented its Medusa Archives platform during a conference.
AureXus was also present as both a participant and sponsor at the IFLA conferences in Kazakhstan, where it presented its solutions in artificial intelligence and the digital transformation of libraries.
Through its Bleu.AureXus program, an ecological initiative focused on ocean protection, raising children’s awareness of marine ecology, supporting research organizations, and other environmental activities, AureXus provided financial support to Tangible Africa for its BOAT project, an offline coding education project for children. Aware that their contribution is only “a drop in the ocean” compared to the scale of global challenges, AureXus continues to remain committed and engaged in environmentalism.
In 2026, AureXus will continue advancing its services with further feature enhancements to Medusa, and a stronger integration of Artificial intelligence across its heritage valorization solutions and services, at every stage of the document processing chain, from image capture to database delivery.
AureXus supports numerous French and international cultural institutions in their documentary projects. Below is a closer look at the successes of 2025.
Collection Cataloguing
Heritage cataloguing represented a major area of AureXus’ activities in 2025, with projects carried out on ancient, specialized, multilingual and multimedia collections:
- Bayonne Media Library: cataloguing and referencing of more than 22,000 heritage documents (16th century – early 20th century), integrated into the local library system and subsequently into the French National Union Catalogue (CCFr).
- Libourne Media Library: cataloguing of more than 9,500 ancient documents originating from revolutionary confiscations, donations and acquisitions (16th–19th centuries). Integration into Orphée and CCFr.
- Metz Libraries: cataloguing of 62,000 heritage volumes (16th–20th centuries), deposited in the CCFr and the library management system.
- Versailles Central Library: cataloguing of 6,500 ancient monographs (collections) dating from the 16th to early 20th centuries, in UNIMARC format. Integrated into the library’s ILS and the CCFr.
- Air and Space Museum: cataloguing of a collection of 1,000 volumes (1950–2000, multilingual). Integrated into the Alexandrie/Koha ILS.
- Paris Music Library: image-based cataloguing of 600 vinyl LPs and 800 music scores. Integrated into the Portfolio database.
- MUCEM Library: hands-on cataloguing of 3,000 books and periodicals (16th–21st centuries). Integrated into the PMB ILS.
- Cambrai – Le Labo: cataloguing of heritage collections totaling more than 4,700 volumes, including 600 incunabula, integrated into the VSmart ILS and the CCFr (16th–20th centuries).
- University of Caen Normandy: retrospective referencing of collections covering 10,000 volumes in 2025 (20th-century works from 1920–1955, and older works published before 1920). Integrated into the Sudoc catalogue.
Catalogue and Inventory Retrospective Conversion
Retrospective conversion projects transformed paper inventories and heterogeneous files into structured, interoperable records:
- Bourg-en-Bresse: conversion of over 20,000 records from the Vailland Media Library, integrated into the Décalog ILS.
- Cambrai – Le Labo: conversion of more than 2,000 records integrated into the VSmart ILS and the CCFr.
- Montélimar: conversion of the ancient collection catalogue of the Maurice Pic Media Library. Integrated into the CCFr and the library’s bibliographic database.
- Fondation Clément: UNIMARC conversion of Excel inventories from several libraries describing more than 6,500 volumes. Integrated into the Nanook ILS.
- French National Overseas Archives (ANOM): retrospective conversion and structuring of 500 finding aids. Integrated into Ligéo Archives.
Inventory Control (Récolement)
AureXus also carried out collection control operations, particularly as part of the French Ministry of Culture’s plan for digitizing historical newspapers:
- Amiens Media Library: inventory control of historical press collections (19th–20th centuries).
- Avignon Library Network: inventory control of regional historical press collections (18th and 20th centuries).
Heritage Digitization
Numerous digitization projects were conducted in 2025, covering a wide range of manuscript, printed and iconographic materials:
- Vendée Departmental Archives: digitization of more than 83,000 images of handwritten and printed archives dating from the 18th century to the present day.
- Indre-et-Loire Departmental Archives: digitization of 621 cadastral registers dating from 1930–1974 (over 300,000 images).
- Nord Departmental Archives: digitization of archival collections (loose pages, plans and registers), approximately 500,000 images per year for the past four years.
- Monaco Archives: digitization of 130 registers and 10,000 slides, as well as digitization and indexing of microfilms and 2,000 trademark files.
- University of the French West Indies: digitization of written and iconographic collections for dissemination on MANIOC and Gallica, in partnership with the BnF.
- City of Toulouse: digitization of documents for various partner institutions (libraries, museums, municipal archives and conservatory). Integrated into the Rosalis and Gallica digital libraries.
- City of Bayonne: digitization of various collections for the media library and archives (mainly historical local newspapers) and integration into Bilketa.
- City of Paris: heritage digitization and OCR processing of various collections for the city’s specialized libraries.
Data Structuring and Encoding
AureXus teams’ expertise in data structuring and standardization was applied across several projects:
- Seine-Maritime Departmental Archives: backlog processing and structuring of finding aids (XML-EAD preparation).
- European Collectivity of Alsace: retrospective conversion of finding aids for parish and civil status registers.
- French National Overseas Archives: XML-EAD encoding, image linking and integration into Ligéo Archives.
- Ardèche Departmental Archives: digitization, sequencing, metadata enrichment and production of XML-EAD finding aids for civil status registers.
- Savoie Departmental Archives (Chambéry): sequencing and enrichment of descriptive data for finding aids (1558–1968).
- Thiers Cutlery Museum: heritage digitization, formatting, consolidation and harmonization of documentary databases prior to a collection project.
- City of Paris Libraries: UNIMARC and EAD encoding of more than 2,000 documents from various library collections.
E-learning
GNCRA: design of e-learning training modules for caregivers, affected individuals and professionals.