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Lessons from CELUS: Practical experience with R5.1 harvesting

R5.1 in the wild is… lively. In this session we’ll share what we’ve learned from harvesting thousands of real reports and integrations — the good, the quirky, and the “why is this JSON yelling at me?” bits. Our goal: help libraries, consortia, and publishers avoid common pitfalls and keep everyone’s data comparable and calm.

What we’ll cover

  • Data availability: required vs. reality
    A quick snapshot of who ships on time, who ships light on history, and where gaps appear — complete with a tidy chart summarizing late/incorrect/insufficient-data cases.
  • SUSHI in practice
    How to clone credentials safely, publisher-specific quirks we’ve seen, and a reality check on endpoints, throttling, pagination, and date windows.
  • JSON “gotchas” we meet most
    From mislabeled metrics and typos in field names to error payloads that don’t match the spec — plus clear examples of how to diagnose and fix them.

Why join

  • Learn the fastest ways to keep R5 and R5.1 trend-safe and comparable.
  • Grab practical checklists you can use with your vendors (or your own systems).
  • Save hours of trial-and-error by learning from our… let’s call them oops-moments.

Bring your edge cases and war stories — we’ll make space for Q&A and compare notes together. This session is community-first and tool-agnostic; use whatever system you like, and take home fixes that work anywhere.

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9 Dec 2025, 3 PM CET
Online via ZOOM
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Lessons from CELUS: Practical experience with R5.1 harvesting

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9 Dec 2025, 3 PM CET
Online via ZOOM
FREE WEBINAR

R5.1 in the wild is… lively. In this session we’ll share what we’ve learned from harvesting thousands of real reports and integrations — the good, the quirky, and the “why is this JSON yelling at me?” bits. Our goal: help libraries, consortia, and publishers avoid common pitfalls and keep everyone’s data comparable and calm.

What we’ll cover

  • Data availability: required vs. reality
    A quick snapshot of who ships on time, who ships light on history, and where gaps appear — complete with a tidy chart summarizing late/incorrect/insufficient-data cases.
  • SUSHI in practice
    How to clone credentials safely, publisher-specific quirks we’ve seen, and a reality check on endpoints, throttling, pagination, and date windows.
  • JSON “gotchas” we meet most
    From mislabeled metrics and typos in field names to error payloads that don’t match the spec — plus clear examples of how to diagnose and fix them.

Why join

  • Learn the fastest ways to keep R5 and R5.1 trend-safe and comparable.
  • Grab practical checklists you can use with your vendors (or your own systems).
  • Save hours of trial-and-error by learning from our… let’s call them oops-moments.

Bring your edge cases and war stories — we’ll make space for Q&A and compare notes together. This session is community-first and tool-agnostic; use whatever system you like, and take home fixes that work anywhere.

REGISTER
Registered participants will receive the recording. Registration is free.
Got a question you’d like our speakers to tackle? Email us at ask@celus.net.
Meet our Speakers
Simona Popelkova
Product Manager & Marketing Witch
If you’ve ever emailed CELUS for help, there’s a good chance Simona replied. She calls herself a Product Manager, but for the past three years she’s mostly been on the front lines with librarians, turning pesky problems into tidy solutions. She’s rolled out more R5.1 SUSHI credentials than she cares to count and has seen it all — the good, the bad, and the gloriously weird. In this webinar, Simona will share practical tricks for troubleshooting credentials, decoding error payloads, and unravelling the gremlins that keep your harvesting reports from being truly useful.
Kamila Kosatova
Heart of Customer Support
Meet Kamila — the heart of Customer Support at CELUS. She’s only been with us a few months, yet she’s already solved hundreds of R5.1 SUSHI cases — from missing history and odd date windows to cryptic error payloads. Kamila lives where harvesting meets reality: reproducing issues, comparing specs vs. behavior, and feeding clear, actionable fixes back to both librarians and platforms. In this webinar, Kamila will walk through the most common pitfalls we see in the wild — and the fastest, least-painful ways out.
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