seriesof: the series a book belongs to, and which volume this is

2026-10-22 18:57:14 +00:00 · 2026-09-19 19:03:47 -04:00
parent e9d22ee1fa
commit 05b363ea8a
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@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "serde",
 "serde-wasm-bindgen",
 "serde_json",
+ "seriesof",
 "textkit",
 "wasm-bindgen",
 ]
@@ -1013,6 +1014,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "pdftriage",
 "rrf",
 "serde_json",
+ "seriesof",
 "textkit",
 ]

@@ -1420,6 +1422,20 @@ dependencies = [
 "zmij",
 ]

+[[package]]
+name = "seriesof"
+version = "0.1.0"
+dependencies = [
+ "catena-cli",
+ "clap",
+ "corpus-core",
+ "fancy-regex 0.16.2",
+ "schemars",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "textkit",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "sha2"
 version = "0.10.9"
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ bibclean = { path = "crates/bibclean", version = "0.1.0" }
 avplan = { path = "crates/avplan", version = "0.1.0" }
 pdfgutter = { path = "crates/pdfgutter", version = "0.1.0" }
 catena = { path = "crates/bindings", version = "0.1.0" }
+seriesof = { path = "crates/seriesof", version = "0.1.0" }
 booksniff = { path = "crates/booksniff", version = "0.1.0" }
 emb = { path = "crates/emb", version = "0.1.0" }

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Each tool installs by name, so you can take one without taking the rest.
 | [`pdftriage`](crates/pdftriage/README.md) | Whether a PDF's text layer is worth reading, or whether it has to be OCRed |
 | [`bibclean`](crates/bibclean/README.md) | Catalogue records audited and repaired, with a reason for every change |
 | [`vocabmerge`](crates/bibclean/README.md#vocabmerge--the-other-command) | The near-duplicate headings in a catalogue's vocabulary |
+| [`seriesof`](crates/seriesof/README.md) | The series a book belongs to, and which volume this is |
 | [`mdscrub`](crates/mdscrub/README.md) | Converted markdown in, clean markdown out |
 | [`mdsplit`](crates/mdsplit/README.md) | One markdown file into the works inside it |
 | [`chunkmd`](crates/chunkmd/README.md) | Markdown into passages that carry their page, chapter and role |
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ cuepack.workspace = true
 mdscrub.workspace = true
 mdsplit.workspace = true
 rrf.workspace = true
+seriesof.workspace = true
 serde.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
 textkit.workspace = true
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ except ValueError as why:
 | `split_collection` | [`mdsplit`](../mdsplit/README.md) |
 | `fuse_hits` | [`rrf`](../rrf/README.md) |
 | `identify` | [`booksniff`](../booksniff/README.md) |
+| `series_of` | [`seriesof`](../seriesof/README.md) |

 The tools that are not here are the ones a binding would gain nothing over a
 subprocess for: they read files, shell out to another program, or talk to a
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ try {
 | `splitCollection` | One markdown file into the works inside it |
 | `fuseHits` | Several ranked lists into one |
 | `identify` | What a file is, from its first bytes |
+| `seriesOf` | The series a book belongs to, and which volume this is |

 The tools that read files or call another program are not here: a browser has
 neither, and a binding that pretends otherwise fails at run time rather than
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 // check, and nothing else would notice.
 import {
  chunkMarkdown, scrub, countTokens, parseSubtitles, packCues,
-  splitCollection, fuseHits, identify,
-  type Chunk, type Cue, type Section, type Hit, type Doc,
+  splitCollection, fuseHits, identify, seriesOf,
+  type Chunk, type Cue, type Section, type Hit, type Doc, type SeriesProposal,
 } from "./dist/web/catena.js";

 const chunks: Chunk[] = chunkMarkdown("# One\n\nbody\n", 512, 64, 50, 768);
@@ -35,4 +35,8 @@ parseSubtitles("x");
 packCues(cues);
 fuseHits(hits);

-export const checked = [page, chapter, flags, clean, tokens, start, packed, slug, fused, kind, notes];
+const proposal: SeriesProposal | undefined = seriesOf("The Philokalia Vol 3");
+const volume: number | undefined = proposal?.volume;
+seriesOf("Aquinas (Companion)", "Cambridge");
+
+export const checked = [volume, page, chapter, flags, clean, tokens, start, packed, slug, fused, kind, notes];
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ from ._catena import (
    pack_cues,
    parse_subtitles,
    scrub,
+    series_of,
    split_collection,
 )

@@ -31,5 +32,6 @@ __all__ = [
    "pack_cues",
    "parse_subtitles",
    "scrub",
+    "series_of",
    "split_collection",
 ]
@@ -30,3 +30,6 @@ def fuse_hits(
    limit: int | None = ...,
 ) -> list[dict[str, Any]]: ...
 def identify(name: str, data: bytes) -> dict[str, Any]: ...
+def series_of(
+    title: str, author: str | None = ...
+) -> dict[str, Any] | None: ...
@@ -356,6 +356,35 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn catena_identify(
    give_json(&crate::identify(name, bytes))
 }

+/// The series a title belongs to. Returns a JSON proposal, or NULL when the
+/// title says nothing about a series — which is most titles, and not an
+/// error: `catena_last_error` is NULL in that case.
+///
+/// # Safety
+///
+/// `title` must be NUL-terminated UTF-8; `author` likewise, or NULL.
+#[unsafe(no_mangle)]
+pub unsafe extern "C" fn catena_series_of(
+    title: *const c_char,
+    author: *const c_char,
+) -> *mut c_char {
+    clear_error();
+    let Some(title) = (unsafe { borrow(title, "title") }) else {
+        return ptr::null_mut();
+    };
+    let author = match author.is_null() {
+        true => None,
+        false => match unsafe { borrow(author, "author") } {
+            Some(author) => Some(author),
+            None => return ptr::null_mut(),
+        },
+    };
+    match crate::series_of(title, author) {
+        Some(found) => give_json(&found),
+        None => ptr::null_mut(),
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
    use super::*;
@@ -455,6 +484,18 @@ mod tests {
        assert!(chunks.contains("the mill stood at the northern end"));
    }

+    #[test]
+    fn a_title_with_no_series_is_null_and_not_an_error() {
+        let title = c"Being and Time";
+        assert!(through(|| unsafe { catena_series_of(title.as_ptr(), ptr::null()) }).is_none());
+        assert_eq!(error(), None, "no series is an answer, not a failure");
+
+        let series = c"The Philokalia Vol 3";
+        let json = through(|| unsafe { catena_series_of(series.as_ptr(), ptr::null()) })
+            .expect("a proposal");
+        assert!(json.contains("\"volume\":3"));
+    }
+
    #[test]
    fn the_abi_version_is_the_one_the_header_declares() {
        assert_eq!(catena_abi_version(), 1);
@@ -176,6 +176,11 @@ pub fn identify(name: &str, bytes: &[u8]) -> Doc {
    booksniff::sniff(&bytes, name)
 }

+/// The series a title belongs to, and which volume of it this is.
+pub fn series_of(title: &str, author: Option<&str>) -> Option<seriesof::Proposal> {
+    seriesof::series_of(title, author)
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
    use super::*;
@@ -232,6 +237,14 @@ mod tests {
        assert_eq!(channel_named("lexical"), None);
    }

+    #[test]
+    fn a_series_comes_back_the_same_as_the_library_reads_it() {
+        let found = series_of("The Philokalia Vol 3", None).expect("a series");
+        assert_eq!(found.series, "The Philokalia");
+        assert_eq!(found.volume, Some(3));
+        assert_eq!(series_of("Being and Time", None), None);
+    }
+
    #[test]
    fn bytes_are_identified_the_same_way_a_file_is() {
        let pdf = b"%PDF-1.4\n";
@@ -192,6 +192,22 @@ fn identify<'py>(py: Python<'py>, name: &str, data: &[u8]) -> PyResult<Bound<'py
    to_py(py, &crate::identify(name, data))
 }

+/// The series a title belongs to, and which volume of it this is.
+///
+/// `None` when the title says nothing about a series, which is most titles.
+#[pyfunction]
+#[pyo3(signature = (title, author = None))]
+fn series_of<'py>(
+    py: Python<'py>,
+    title: &str,
+    author: Option<&str>,
+) -> PyResult<Option<Bound<'py, PyAny>>> {
+    match crate::series_of(title, author) {
+        Some(found) => Ok(Some(to_py(py, &found)?)),
+        None => Ok(None),
+    }
+}
+
 /// The module Python imports.
 #[pymodule]
 fn _catena(module: &Bound<'_, PyModule>) -> PyResult<()> {
@@ -204,5 +220,6 @@ fn _catena(module: &Bound<'_, PyModule>) -> PyResult<()> {
    module.add_function(wrap_pyfunction!(split_collection, module)?)?;
    module.add_function(wrap_pyfunction!(fuse_hits, module)?)?;
    module.add_function(wrap_pyfunction!(identify, module)?)?;
+    module.add_function(wrap_pyfunction!(series_of, module)?)?;
    Ok(())
 }
@@ -70,6 +70,20 @@ export interface Hit {
  payload: unknown;
 }

+/** What a title says about its series. */
+export interface SeriesProposal {
+  v: number;
+  title: string;
+  author?: string;
+  series: string;
+  /** Which volume, where the title said. Absent for membership without order. */
+  volume?: number;
+  /** A title reconstructed from publisher shorthand, where one reliably can be. */
+  proposed_title?: string;
+  /** "volume" or "publisher". */
+  method: string;
+}
+
 /** What a file is. */
 export interface Doc {
  v: number;
@@ -208,6 +222,17 @@ pub fn identify(name: &str, data: &[u8]) -> Result<JsValue, JsValue> {
    to_js(&crate::identify(name, data))
 }

+/// The series a title belongs to, and which volume of it this is.
+///
+/// `undefined` when the title says nothing about a series.
+#[wasm_bindgen(js_name = seriesOf, skip_typescript)]
+pub fn series_of(title: &str, author: Option<String>) -> Result<JsValue, JsValue> {
+    match crate::series_of(title, author.as_deref()) {
+        Some(found) => to_js(&found),
+        None => Ok(JsValue::UNDEFINED),
+    }
+}
+
 /// Declarations for the functions whose return type the generator cannot
 /// infer, so a caller gets `Chunk[]` rather than `any`.
 #[wasm_bindgen(typescript_custom_section)]
@@ -218,4 +243,5 @@ export function packCues(cues: Cue[], seconds?: number, max_tokens?: number): Ch
 export function splitCollection(markdown: string): Section[];
 export function fuseHits(hits: Hit[], k?: number, weights?: Record<string, number>, limit?: number): Hit[];
 export function identify(name: string, data: Uint8Array): Doc;
+export function seriesOf(title: string, author?: string): SeriesProposal | undefined;
 "#;
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+[package]
+name = "seriesof"
+description = "The series a book belongs to, and which volume of it this is."
+version.workspace = true
+edition.workspace = true
+rust-version.workspace = true
+license.workspace = true
+repository.workspace = true
+
+[dependencies]
+catena-cli.workspace = true
+clap.workspace = true
+corpus-core.workspace = true
+fancy-regex.workspace = true
+schemars.workspace = true
+serde.workspace = true
+serde_json.workspace = true
+textkit.workspace = true
+
+[lints]
+workspace = true
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+# seriesof
+
+The series a book belongs to, and which volume of it this is.
+
+Part of [catena](../../README.md).
+
+## What it does
+
+Reads a series and a volume off a title, and says nothing about the books it
+cannot place.
+
+A shelf groups by series and volume, and most catalogues have neither set on
+most books. What that looks like from the reading chair: four records all
+reading "A History of Philosophy" with nothing to say which volume any of them
+is, and five volumes of one work sorting as five unrelated books.
+
+## When you would use it
+
+- **Before importing a shelf** into anything that browses by series.
+- **Auditing a catalogue** that was built from filenames, where the series was
+  in the title all along and nobody read it.
+- **Finding the volumes of a work you already have**, which is a query you
+  cannot ask until the series field exists.
+
+## Install
+
+```sh
+cargo install --git https://git.pumpin.online/funkpower/catena seriesof
+```
+
+## Example
+
+```
+$ seriesof catalogue.ndjson | jq -r '"\(.series)\t#\(.volume // "—")\t\(.method)"'
+The Philokalia	#3	volume
+A History of Philosophy	#4	volume
+The Art of Computer Programming	#3	volume
+Cambridge Companions	#—	publisher
+Very Short Introductions	#—	publisher
+Blackwell Companions	#—	publisher
+Raven Son	#1	volume
+```
+
+The whole record, for a title that carries a volume:
+
+```
+$ seriesof catalogue.ndjson | head -1
+{"v":1,"title":"The Philokalia Vol 3","author":"Palmer","series":"The Philokalia","volume":3,"method":"volume"}
+```
+
+And for publisher shorthand, which proposes a title as well:
+
+```
+$ seriesof catalogue.ndjson | jq -c 'select(.method == "publisher") | {series, proposed_title}' | head -2
+{"series":"Cambridge Companions","proposed_title":"The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas"}
+{"series":"Very Short Introductions","proposed_title":"Logic: A Very Short Introduction"}
+```
+
+Plain titles, for a directory rather than a catalogue:
+
+```
+$ ls *.epub | sed 's/\.epub$//' | seriesof --titles
+{"v":1,"title":"The Philokalia Vol 3","series":"The Philokalia","volume":3,"method":"volume"}
+```
+
+Nothing to propose is an answer:
+
+```
+$ printf '{"title":"Being and Time"}\n' | seriesof
+$ echo $?
+1
+```
+
+Applying only what you believe:
+
+```sh
+seriesof catalogue.ndjson \
+  | jq -r 'select(.volume) | "UPDATE book SET series = \(.series|@json), series_index = \(.volume) WHERE title = \(.title|@json);"' \
+  | psql
+```
+
+## Options
+
+| Option | Effect |
+|---|---|
+| `--titles` | Read plain titles, one per line, rather than records |
+| `--man` | Write this page as a manual page, in roff |
+
+## Exit codes
+
+| Code | Meaning |
+|---|---|
+| `0` | Something was proposed |
+| `1` | Nothing was |
+| `64` | The command line was wrong |
+| `65` | The input was not records |
+| `74` | The file could not be read |
+
+## How it decides
+
+Two shapes are recoverable, and they are not the same kind of fact.
+
+### A volume marker is a position
+
+"The Philokalia Vol 3", "Collected Works, Volume 9", "(Raven Son Book 1)".
+The unit word is required — `Vol`, `Volume`, `Book`, `Part`, `Pt`, `Tome`,
+`Bk` — because a bare trailing number is far more often a year, an edition or
+noise. Arabic and roman numerals both count, in any script, up to two hundred.
+
+The series is **what comes before the marker**. Whatever follows is that
+volume's own subtitle: "The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and
+Searching" is volume 3 *of* the former, and gluing the halves back together
+gives a title nobody published.
+
+Except where the convention puts the series inside a bracket — "The Song of
+the Sirin (Raven Son Book 1)" is book one of *Raven Son*, not of "The Song of
+the Sirin (Raven Son".
+
+A marker with nothing usable before it is left alone. "Vol. 2. PLATO,
+EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS" is a volume of something whose name is not in the
+field at all, and filing it under its own contents is worse than not filing
+it.
+
+### Publisher shorthand is only membership
+
+A title of "Aquinas (Companion)" against an author of "Cambridge" means the
+publisher landed in the author column and the collection name was flattened
+into a parenthetical. The work is *The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas*.
+
+These get a series and **no number**, deliberately. Cambridge Companions are
+not numbered, nobody knows what "#3" would mean, and cataloguing software
+defaults a missing index to 1 — so filing them as a numbered series makes
+every one display as volume one, asserting an order the data does not have.
+
+A title is only reconstructed where it reliably can be. Cambridge and
+Routledge front theirs with the imprint; Blackwell does not — its Companions
+to Philosophy are "A Companion to Nietzsche", while a few of its religion
+titles genuinely are "The Blackwell Companion to …". The shorthand cannot tell
+which, so Blackwell gets its series and no title claim.
+
+Recognised: Cambridge, Oxford, Blackwell, Wiley Blackwell, Routledge, SUNY,
+Palgrave and Springer, across companions, concise companions, handbooks,
+guidebooks, Very Short Introductions, Contemporary Debates, contemporary
+introductions, anthologies and studies.
+
+## As a library
+
+```rust
+let found = seriesof::series_of("The Philokalia Vol 3", None).expect("a series");
+assert_eq!(found.series, "The Philokalia");
+assert_eq!(found.volume, Some(3));
+```
+
+`parse_volume` and `publisher_series` answer each half on its own, and
+`roman_or_int` reads a numeral in any script.
+
+## See also
+
+- [`bibclean`](../bibclean/README.md) — the rest of what a catalogue record
+  needs before it is worth keeping.
+- [`booksniff`](../booksniff/README.md) — what the file actually is.
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+//! The series a book belongs to, and which volume of it this is.
+//!
+//! A shelf groups by series and volume, and most catalogues have neither set
+//! on most books. The consequence is visible rather than theoretical: four
+//! records all reading "A History of Philosophy" with nothing to say which
+//! volume any of them is, and five volumes of one work sorting as five
+//! unrelated books.
+//!
+//! Two shapes are recoverable from text the catalogue already holds, and they
+//! are not the same kind of fact.
+//!
+//! A **volume marker** in the title — "The Philokalia Vol 3", "Collected
+//! Works, Volume 9", "(Raven Son Book 1)" — is a *position*, and gives both a
+//! series and a number.
+//!
+//! **Publisher shorthand** — a title of "Aquinas (Companion)" against an
+//! author of "Cambridge" — is only *membership*. Cambridge Companions are not
+//! numbered, so filing one under a numbered series makes every one of them
+//! display as volume one, asserting an order the data does not have. Those
+//! get a series and no number.
+
+pub mod publisher;
+pub mod volume;
+
+use schemars::JsonSchema;
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+
+pub use publisher::publisher_series;
+pub use volume::{parse_volume, roman_or_int};
+
+/// What a title turned out to say about its series.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize, JsonSchema)]
+pub struct Proposal {
+    /// Record version.
+    #[serde(default = "version")]
+    pub v: u32,
+    /// The title it was read from.
+    pub title: String,
+    /// The author it was read against, where one was given.
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub author: Option<String>,
+    /// The series the book belongs to.
+    pub series: String,
+    /// Which volume, where the title said. Absent for a series that is
+    /// membership rather than position.
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub volume: Option<u32>,
+    /// A title reconstructed from the shorthand, where one reliably can be.
+    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
+    pub proposed_title: Option<String>,
+    /// Which of the two shapes this was.
+    pub method: Method,
+}
+
+/// How a series was arrived at.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize, JsonSchema)]
+#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
+pub enum Method {
+    /// A volume marker in the title: a position within a series.
+    Volume,
+    /// Publisher shorthand in a parenthetical: membership, not position.
+    Publisher,
+}
+
+fn version() -> u32 {
+    corpus_core::V
+}
+
+impl corpus_core::Record for Proposal {
+    fn version(&self) -> u32 {
+        self.v
+    }
+}
+
+/// What a title and author say about the series, if anything.
+///
+/// The volume marker is looked for first: it carries a number, and a number
+/// is worth more than membership.
+pub fn series_of(title: &str, author: Option<&str>) -> Option<Proposal> {
+    if let Some((series, volume)) = parse_volume(title) {
+        return Some(Proposal {
+            v: corpus_core::V,
+            title: title.to_string(),
+            author: author.map(str::to_string),
+            series,
+            volume: Some(volume),
+            proposed_title: None,
+            method: Method::Volume,
+        });
+    }
+
+    let (proposed_title, series) = publisher_series(title, author?)?;
+    Some(Proposal {
+        v: corpus_core::V,
+        title: title.to_string(),
+        author: author.map(str::to_string),
+        series,
+        volume: None,
+        proposed_title,
+        method: Method::Publisher,
+    })
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_volume_marker_gives_a_series_and_a_number() {
+        let found = series_of("The Philokalia Vol 3", None).expect("a series");
+        assert_eq!(found.series, "The Philokalia");
+        assert_eq!(found.volume, Some(3));
+        assert_eq!(found.method, Method::Volume);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn publisher_shorthand_gives_membership_and_no_number() {
+        let found = series_of("Aquinas (Companion)", Some("Cambridge")).expect("a series");
+        assert_eq!(found.series, "Cambridge Companions");
+        assert_eq!(found.volume, None, "membership is not a position");
+        assert_eq!(
+            found.proposed_title.as_deref(),
+            Some("The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas")
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_volume_marker_wins_over_a_parenthetical() {
+        // Both could match; the one carrying a number is worth more.
+        let found = series_of("Aquinas (Companion) Vol 2", Some("Cambridge")).expect("a series");
+        assert_eq!(found.method, Method::Volume);
+        assert_eq!(found.volume, Some(2));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_ordinary_title_proposes_nothing() {
+        assert_eq!(series_of("Being and Time", Some("Heidegger")), None);
+        assert_eq!(series_of("", None), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn publisher_shorthand_needs_the_publisher() {
+        // The same title against anybody else is just a title.
+        assert_eq!(series_of("Aquinas (Companion)", Some("Kerr")), None);
+        assert_eq!(series_of("Aquinas (Companion)", None), None);
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+//! The series a book belongs to, and which volume of it this is.
+
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+use std::process::ExitCode;
+
+use clap::Parser;
+use corpus_core::exit;
+
+/// Read a series and a volume off a title, one record per proposal.
+///
+/// A shelf groups by series and volume, and most catalogues have neither. Four
+/// records all reading "A History of Philosophy" with nothing to say which
+/// volume any of them is, is what that looks like from the reading chair.
+///
+/// Reads one JSON record per line with a `title` and optionally an `author`,
+/// or plain titles with `--titles`. Says nothing about the books it cannot
+/// place.
+#[derive(Parser)]
+#[command(
+    version,
+    about,
+    after_help = "\
+Exit codes: 0 something was proposed, 1 nothing was, 65 the input was not
+records, 74 the file could not be read.
+
+Example:
+
+    seriesof catalogue.ndjson | jq -r '\"\\(.series) #\\(.volume // \"-\")\"'
+    ls *.epub | sed 's/\\.epub$//' | seriesof --titles"
+)]
+struct Args {
+    /// Records to read. Reads stdin when absent.
+    path: Option<PathBuf>,
+
+    /// Read plain titles, one per line, rather than records.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    titles: bool,
+}
+
+fn main() -> ExitCode {
+    let args: Args = match catena_cli::parse() {
+        Ok(args) => args,
+        Err(code) => return code,
+    };
+
+    let text = match catena_cli::read_text(args.path.as_deref()) {
+        Ok(text) => text,
+        Err((code, why)) => {
+            eprintln!("seriesof: {why}");
+            return ExitCode::from(code);
+        }
+    };
+
+    let mut proposals = Vec::new();
+    for (number, line) in text.lines().enumerate() {
+        if line.trim().is_empty() {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let (title, author) = match args.titles {
+            true => (line.trim().to_string(), None),
+            false => match read_record(line) {
+                Ok(pair) => pair,
+                Err(why) => {
+                    eprintln!("seriesof: line {}: {why}", number + 1);
+                    return ExitCode::from(exit::DATA);
+                }
+            },
+        };
+        if let Some(proposal) = seriesof::series_of(&title, author.as_deref()) {
+            proposals.push(proposal);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Nothing to propose is an answer, and the usual one for a catalogue that
+    // has already been through this.
+    if proposals.is_empty() {
+        return ExitCode::from(exit::NO);
+    }
+    catena_cli::stream("seriesof", &proposals)
+}
+
+/// The title and author out of one record.
+fn read_record(line: &str) -> Result<(String, Option<String>), String> {
+    let value: serde_json::Value =
+        serde_json::from_str(line).map_err(|e| format!("not a record: {e}"))?;
+    let title = value
+        .get("title")
+        .and_then(serde_json::Value::as_str)
+        .ok_or("no title")?
+        .to_string();
+    let author = value
+        .get("author")
+        .and_then(serde_json::Value::as_str)
+        .map(str::to_string);
+    Ok((title, author))
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,265 @@
+//! Publisher-collection shorthand: "Aquinas (Companion)" against "Cambridge".
+//!
+//! The publishers and their collections are general reference data — a
+//! Cambridge Companion is the same thing on every shelf in the world — of the
+//! same kind as the publisher names elsewhere in this suite.
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
+
+use fancy_regex::Regex;
+
+/// A trailing parenthetical short enough to be a collection name.
+static PAREN_KIND: LazyLock<Regex> =
+    LazyLock::new(|| Regex::new(r"\(([^)]{3,40})\)\s*$").expect("a valid pattern"));
+
+/// A trailing year, parenthesised or not, that a filename picked up.
+static TRAILING_YEAR: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
+    Regex::new(r"(?:\s*[\[(]\s*(?:19|20)\d{2}\s*[\])]\s*|\s*[.,\-]\s*(?:19|20)\d{2}\s*)$")
+        .expect("a valid pattern")
+});
+
+/// A second trailing parenthetical, once the first has been taken as the kind.
+static TRAILING_PAREN: LazyLock<Regex> =
+    LazyLock::new(|| Regex::new(r"\s*[\[(][^\])]{0,40}[\])]\s*$").expect("a valid pattern"));
+
+/// The publishers this shorthand appears with, and the name their collections
+/// are published under.
+static PUBLISHERS: LazyLock<HashMap<&'static str, &'static str>> = LazyLock::new(|| {
+    [
+        ("cambridge", "Cambridge"),
+        ("oxford", "Oxford"),
+        ("blackwell", "Blackwell"),
+        ("wiley blackwell", "Blackwell"),
+        ("routledge", "Routledge"),
+        ("suny", "SUNY"),
+        ("palgrave", "Palgrave"),
+        ("springer", "Springer"),
+    ]
+    .into_iter()
+    .collect()
+});
+
+/// What each kind of collection is called, and what its volumes are titled.
+///
+/// The title is `None` where the real one is not derivable from the shorthand
+/// — an "Anthology" or a "Studies" volume is not titled by any one pattern,
+/// and guessing produces things nobody published. For those only the series
+/// is proposed, which is the half that fixes browsing.
+static KINDS: LazyLock<HashMap<&'static str, (Option<&'static str>, &'static str)>> =
+    LazyLock::new(|| {
+        [
+            ("companion", (None, "{pub} Companions")),
+            ("companions", (None, "{pub} Companions")),
+            ("concise", (None, "{pub} Concise Companions")),
+            ("handbook", (None, "{pub} Handbooks")),
+            (
+                "guidebook",
+                (
+                    Some("{pub} Philosophy Guidebook to {topic}"),
+                    "{pub} Philosophy Guidebooks",
+                ),
+            ),
+            (
+                "very short introduction",
+                (
+                    Some("{topic}: A Very Short Introduction"),
+                    "Very Short Introductions",
+                ),
+            ),
+            (
+                "contemporary debates",
+                (
+                    Some("Contemporary Debates in {topic}"),
+                    "Contemporary Debates",
+                ),
+            ),
+            (
+                "contemporary introductions",
+                (None, "{pub} Contemporary Introductions"),
+            ),
+            ("anthology", (None, "{pub} Anthologies")),
+            ("studies", (None, "{pub} Studies")),
+        ]
+        .into_iter()
+        .collect()
+    });
+
+/// Titles that depend on who published them.
+///
+/// The houses do not name their volumes alike, and getting it wrong renames a
+/// book. Cambridge and Routledge front theirs with the imprint; Blackwell does
+/// not — its Companions to Philosophy are "A Companion to Nietzsche", while a
+/// few of its religion titles genuinely are "The Blackwell Companion to …".
+/// That is unresolvable from the shorthand, so Blackwell gets its series and
+/// no title claim.
+static PUBLISHER_TITLES: LazyLock<HashMap<(&'static str, &'static str), &'static str>> =
+    LazyLock::new(|| {
+        [
+            (
+                ("Cambridge", "companion"),
+                "The Cambridge Companion to {topic}",
+            ),
+            (
+                ("Cambridge", "companions"),
+                "The Cambridge Companion to {topic}",
+            ),
+            (
+                ("Routledge", "companion"),
+                "The Routledge Companion to {topic}",
+            ),
+            (
+                ("Routledge", "companions"),
+                "The Routledge Companion to {topic}",
+            ),
+            (("Oxford", "handbook"), "The Oxford Handbook of {topic}"),
+        ]
+        .into_iter()
+        .collect()
+    });
+
+/// Reconstruct a title and a series from publisher shorthand.
+///
+/// Gives `(title, series)`, where the title is `None` for the kinds whose
+/// real titles do not follow one pattern. `None` altogether when the title
+/// carries no recognised parenthetical, or the author is not a publisher this
+/// shorthand shows up with.
+pub fn publisher_series(title: &str, author: &str) -> Option<(Option<String>, String)> {
+    let title = title.trim();
+    // Lowercased and trimmed, but runs of space inside are left alone: the
+    // table is matched against exactly, and a doubled space in an author
+    // field is as likely to be two different names run together as a typo.
+    let author = author.trim().to_lowercase();
+    if title.is_empty() {
+        return None;
+    }
+    let publisher = *PUBLISHERS.get(author.as_str())?;
+
+    let found = PAREN_KIND.captures(title).ok().flatten()?;
+    let kind = collapse(&found.get(1)?.as_str().trim().to_lowercase());
+    let (title_template, series_template) = *KINDS.get(kind.as_str())?;
+
+    let trim = |text: &str| {
+        text.trim_matches(|c: char| " ,:;.-–—".contains(c))
+            .to_string()
+    };
+    let topic = trim(&title[..found.get(0)?.start()]);
+    let topic = trim(&TRAILING_YEAR.replace(&topic, ""));
+    let topic = trim(&TRAILING_PAREN.replace(&topic, ""));
+    if topic.chars().count() < 2 {
+        return None;
+    }
+
+    // The per-publisher title first; the per-kind one only covers collections
+    // that name themselves the same way whoever publishes them.
+    let template = PUBLISHER_TITLES
+        .get(&(publisher, kind.as_str()))
+        .copied()
+        .or(title_template);
+    Some((
+        template.map(|template| fill(template, publisher, &topic)),
+        fill(series_template, publisher, &topic),
+    ))
+}
+
+/// A template with its two placeholders filled.
+fn fill(template: &str, publisher: &str, topic: &str) -> String {
+    template
+        .replace("{pub}", publisher)
+        .replace("{topic}", topic)
+}
+
+/// Runs of whitespace down to one space.
+fn collapse(text: &str) -> String {
+    text.split_whitespace().collect::<Vec<_>>().join(" ")
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_cambridge_companion_is_reconstructed_whole() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            publisher_series("Aquinas (Companion)", "Cambridge"),
+            Some((
+                Some("The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas".to_string()),
+                "Cambridge Companions".to_string()
+            ))
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn blackwell_gets_its_series_and_no_title_claim() {
+        // Its companions are "A Companion to Nietzsche", not "The Blackwell
+        // Companion to Nietzsche", and the shorthand cannot tell which.
+        assert_eq!(
+            publisher_series("Nietzsche (Companion)", "Blackwell"),
+            Some((None, "Blackwell Companions".to_string()))
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_collection_that_names_itself_the_same_way_everywhere_needs_no_publisher() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            publisher_series("Logic (Very Short Introduction)", "Oxford"),
+            Some((
+                Some("Logic: A Very Short Introduction".to_string()),
+                "Very Short Introductions".to_string()
+            ))
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_trailing_year_is_not_part_of_the_topic() {
+        for title in [
+            "Christian Ethics (2004) (Companion)",
+            "Christian Ethics.2009 (Companion)",
+            "Christian Ethics [2006] (Companion)",
+        ] {
+            let (proposed, _) = publisher_series(title, "Cambridge").expect("a series");
+            assert_eq!(
+                proposed.as_deref(),
+                Some("The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics"),
+                "{title}"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_second_parenthetical_is_not_part_of_the_topic_either() {
+        let (proposed, _) =
+            publisher_series("British Drama [Contemporary] (Companion)", "Cambridge")
+                .expect("a series");
+        assert_eq!(
+            proposed.as_deref(),
+            Some("The Cambridge Companion to British Drama")
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn an_author_who_is_not_a_publisher_proposes_nothing() {
+        assert_eq!(publisher_series("Aquinas (Companion)", "Fergus Kerr"), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_parenthetical_that_is_not_a_collection_proposes_nothing() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            publisher_series("Aquinas (Second Edition)", "Cambridge"),
+            None
+        );
+        assert_eq!(publisher_series("Aquinas", "Cambridge"), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_shorthand_with_no_topic_left_proposes_nothing() {
+        assert_eq!(publisher_series("(Companion)", "Cambridge"), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_publisher_is_read_however_it_is_cased_or_padded() {
+        assert!(publisher_series("Ethics (Companion)", "  WILEY BLACKWELL ").is_some());
+        // But a doubled space inside is a different string, not a typo to fix.
+        assert!(publisher_series("Ethics (Companion)", "wiley  blackwell").is_none());
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,243 @@
+//! A volume marker in a title, and the series it implies.
+
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
+
+use fancy_regex::Regex;
+
+/// The roman numerals a volume is ever written in.
+///
+/// Twenty is where real collected editions stop; past that the numeral is far
+/// more often a century or a chapter than a volume.
+static ROMAN: LazyLock<HashMap<&'static str, u32>> = LazyLock::new(|| {
+    [
+        ("i", 1),
+        ("ii", 2),
+        ("iii", 3),
+        ("iv", 4),
+        ("v", 5),
+        ("vi", 6),
+        ("vii", 7),
+        ("viii", 8),
+        ("ix", 9),
+        ("x", 10),
+        ("xi", 11),
+        ("xii", 12),
+        ("xiii", 13),
+        ("xiv", 14),
+        ("xv", 15),
+        ("xvi", 16),
+        ("xvii", 17),
+        ("xviii", 18),
+        ("xix", 19),
+        ("xx", 20),
+    ]
+    .into_iter()
+    .collect()
+});
+
+/// "Vol 3", "Volume IX", "Book 1", "Part 2", "Tome II".
+///
+/// The unit word is required. A bare trailing number is far more often a
+/// year, an edition, or noise than a volume.
+static VOLUME: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
+    Regex::new(r"(?ix) [\s,:;.\-–—(\[]* \b(?:vol(?:ume)?s?|bk|book|part|pt|tome)\b [\s.:\#\-]* (?P<num>\d{1,3}|[ivxlc]{1,7}) \b[\s)\]]*")
+        .expect("a valid pattern")
+});
+
+/// The largest volume number worth believing.
+///
+/// Past two hundred it is a page, a year or a catalogue number that happens
+/// to sit after the word "book".
+const MAX_VOLUME: u32 = 200;
+
+/// Parse `9` or `IX` to nine. `None` for anything that is neither.
+///
+/// Digits in any script, because the pattern that finds them matches the
+/// Unicode class and a catalogue in Arabic writes its volumes in Arabic
+/// figures.
+pub fn roman_or_int(text: &str) -> Option<u32> {
+    let text = text.trim().to_lowercase();
+    if text.is_empty() {
+        return None;
+    }
+    if text.chars().all(char::is_numeric) {
+        let number = textkit::decimal(&text);
+        return match (1..=MAX_VOLUME).contains(&number) {
+            true => Some(number),
+            false => None,
+        };
+    }
+    ROMAN.get(text.as_str()).copied()
+}
+
+/// Split a volume marker off a title, giving the series and the number.
+///
+/// `None` when there is no marker, or when removing it leaves nothing that
+/// could be a series name.
+pub fn parse_volume(title: &str) -> Option<(String, u32)> {
+    let title = title.trim();
+    if title.is_empty() {
+        return None;
+    }
+
+    let found = VOLUME.captures(title).ok().flatten()?;
+    let whole = found.get(0)?;
+    let volume = roman_or_int(found.name("num")?.as_str())?;
+
+    // What comes before the marker is the series. Whatever follows is this
+    // volume's own subtitle — "The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3:
+    // Sorting and Searching" is volume 3 *of* the former, and gluing the
+    // halves back together gives a title nobody wrote.
+    let mut name = &title[..whole.start()];
+
+    // The trailing-parenthetical convention puts the series inside the
+    // brackets: "The Song of the Sirin (Raven Son Book 1)" is book one of
+    // "Raven Son", not of "The Song of the Sirin (Raven Son".
+    if let Some(open) = name.rfind(['(', '[']) {
+        let after = &name[open..];
+        if !after.contains(')') && !after.contains(']') {
+            name = &name[open + 1..];
+        }
+    }
+
+    let name = collapse_spaces(name);
+    let name = name.trim_matches(|c: char| " ,:;.-–—([".contains(c));
+    let name = name.trim_end_matches(|c: char| " ,:;.-–—".contains(c));
+
+    // Nothing before the marker means the title never named a series. "Vol.
+    // 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS" is a volume of something whose
+    // name is simply not in the field, and filing it under its own contents
+    // is worse than leaving it unfiled.
+    if name.chars().count() < 4 || !has_word(name) {
+        return None;
+    }
+    Some((name.to_string(), volume))
+}
+
+/// Runs of whitespace down to one space.
+fn collapse_spaces(text: &str) -> String {
+    let mut out = String::with_capacity(text.len());
+    let mut spaces = 0usize;
+    for c in text.chars() {
+        match c.is_whitespace() {
+            true => spaces += 1,
+            false => {
+                if spaces > 0 {
+                    out.push(' ');
+                    spaces = 0;
+                }
+                out.push(c);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    if spaces > 0 {
+        out.push(' ');
+    }
+    out
+}
+
+/// Whether there are three letters in a row anywhere, which is the least a
+/// series name can be and still be a name.
+fn has_word(text: &str) -> bool {
+    let mut run = 0;
+    for c in text.chars() {
+        run = match c.is_ascii_alphabetic() {
+            true => run + 1,
+            false => 0,
+        };
+        if run >= 3 {
+            return true;
+        }
+    }
+    false
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn arabic_and_roman_both_read_as_numbers() {
+        assert_eq!(roman_or_int("9"), Some(9));
+        assert_eq!(roman_or_int("IX"), Some(9));
+        assert_eq!(roman_or_int(" ix "), Some(9));
+        assert_eq!(roman_or_int("xx"), Some(20));
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn what_is_not_a_volume_number_is_not_one() {
+        assert_eq!(roman_or_int(""), None);
+        assert_eq!(roman_or_int("0"), None);
+        assert_eq!(roman_or_int("201"), None);
+        assert_eq!(roman_or_int("xxi"), None, "past twenty is not a volume");
+        assert_eq!(roman_or_int("nine"), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_volume_written_in_another_script_is_still_a_volume() {
+        assert_eq!(roman_or_int("٣"), Some(3));
+        assert_eq!(roman_or_int("١٢"), Some(12));
+        // A fraction is numeric and is not a digit run.
+        assert_eq!(roman_or_int("½"), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn the_series_is_what_comes_before_the_marker() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse_volume("The Philokalia Vol 3"),
+            Some(("The Philokalia".to_string(), 3))
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse_volume("Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9"),
+            Some(("Collected Works of C.G. Jung".to_string(), 9))
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_volumes_own_subtitle_is_not_part_of_the_series_name() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse_volume("The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching"),
+            Some(("The Art of Computer Programming".to_string(), 3))
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_series_named_inside_a_parenthetical_is_the_series() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse_volume("The Song of the Sirin (Raven Son Book 1)"),
+            Some(("Raven Son".to_string(), 1))
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_title_that_never_named_a_series_is_left_unfiled() {
+        // A Harvard Classics volume, whose series name is not in the field.
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse_volume("Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS"),
+            None
+        );
+        assert_eq!(parse_volume("Book 1"), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_bare_number_is_not_a_volume() {
+        // Far more often a year, an edition, or noise.
+        assert_eq!(parse_volume("Being and Time 1927"), None);
+        assert_eq!(parse_volume("Ethics 2"), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn nothing_in_nothing_out() {
+        assert_eq!(parse_volume(""), None);
+        assert_eq!(parse_volume("   "), None);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn roman_volumes_read_the_same_as_arabic_ones() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            parse_volume("A History of Philosophy, Vol. IV"),
+            Some(("A History of Philosophy".to_string(), 4))
+        );
+    }
+}
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ mdscrub.workspace = true
 mdsplit.workspace = true
 avplan.workspace = true
 pdfgutter.workspace = true
+seriesof.workspace = true
 pdftriage.workspace = true
 rrf.workspace = true
 corpus-core.workspace = true
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+{"name": "number-9-0", "kind": "number", "text": "9"}
+{"name": "number-IX-1", "kind": "number", "text": "IX"}
+{"name": "number-ix-2", "kind": "number", "text": "ix"}
+{"name": "number-ix-3", "kind": "number", "text": " ix "}
+{"name": "number-XX-4", "kind": "number", "text": "XX"}
+{"name": "number-0-5", "kind": "number", "text": "0"}
+{"name": "number-201-6", "kind": "number", "text": "201"}
+{"name": "number-200-7", "kind": "number", "text": "200"}
+{"name": "number-1-8", "kind": "number", "text": "1"}
+{"name": "number-xxi-9", "kind": "number", "text": "xxi"}
+{"name": "number-nine-10", "kind": "number", "text": "nine"}
+{"name": "number-blank-11", "kind": "number", "text": ""}
+{"name": "number-blank-12", "kind": "number", "text": "  "}
+{"name": "number-i-13", "kind": "number", "text": "i"}
+{"name": "number-III-14", "kind": "number", "text": "III"}
+{"name": "number-c-15", "kind": "number", "text": "c"}
+{"name": "number-l-16", "kind": "number", "text": "l"}
+{"name": "number-12.5-17", "kind": "number", "text": "12.5"}
+{"name": "number-07-18", "kind": "number", "text": "07"}
+{"name": "number-\u0663-19", "kind": "number", "text": "\u0663"}
+{"name": "volume-20", "kind": "volume", "title": "The Philokalia Vol 3"}
+{"name": "volume-21", "kind": "volume", "title": "Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9"}
+{"name": "volume-22", "kind": "volume", "title": "The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching"}
+{"name": "volume-23", "kind": "volume", "title": "The Song of the Sirin (Raven Son Book 1)"}
+{"name": "volume-24", "kind": "volume", "title": "Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS"}
+{"name": "volume-25", "kind": "volume", "title": "Book 1"}
+{"name": "volume-26", "kind": "volume", "title": "Being and Time 1927"}
+{"name": "volume-27", "kind": "volume", "title": "Ethics 2"}
+{"name": "volume-28", "kind": "volume", "title": "A History of Philosophy, Vol. IV"}
+{"name": "volume-29", "kind": "volume", "title": "A History of Philosophy Volume IV: Modern Philosophy"}
+{"name": "volume-30", "kind": "volume", "title": "The Lord of the Rings Part 2"}
+{"name": "volume-31", "kind": "volume", "title": "Summa Theologica, Tome II"}
+{"name": "volume-32", "kind": "volume", "title": "Institutes Bk 4"}
+{"name": "volume-33", "kind": "volume", "title": "Harry Potter (Book 7)"}
+{"name": "volume-34", "kind": "volume", "title": "The Decline and Fall vol. xx"}
+{"name": "volume-35", "kind": "volume", "title": "The Decline and Fall vol. xxi"}
+{"name": "volume-36", "kind": "volume", "title": "Works pt 3"}
+{"name": "volume-37", "kind": "volume", "title": "Volume 1"}
+{"name": "volume-38", "kind": "volume", "title": ""}
+{"name": "volume-39", "kind": "volume", "title": "   "}
+{"name": "volume-40", "kind": "volume", "title": "The Republic"}
+{"name": "volume-41", "kind": "volume", "title": "Selected Works Vol 201"}
+{"name": "volume-42", "kind": "volume", "title": "Selected Works Vol 0"}
+{"name": "volume-43", "kind": "volume", "title": "abc Vol 1"}
+{"name": "volume-44", "kind": "volume", "title": "abcd Vol 1"}
+{"name": "volume-45", "kind": "volume", "title": "(Raven Son Book 12)"}
+{"name": "volume-46", "kind": "volume", "title": "Sirin [Raven Son Book 3]"}
+{"name": "volume-47", "kind": "volume", "title": "Title (Series Book 2) extra"}
+{"name": "volume-48", "kind": "volume", "title": "Jung \u2014 Volume 9"}
+{"name": "volume-49", "kind": "volume", "title": "Jung \u2013 Volume 9"}
+{"name": "volume-50", "kind": "volume", "title": "Nicomachean Ethics, Books VIII and IX"}
+{"name": "volume-51", "kind": "volume", "title": "The Cambridge History, Volume II: The Middle Ages"}
+{"name": "publisher-52", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Aquinas (Companion)", "author": "Cambridge"}
+{"name": "publisher-53", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Nietzsche (Companion)", "author": "Blackwell"}
+{"name": "publisher-54", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Logic (Very Short Introduction)", "author": "Oxford"}
+{"name": "publisher-55", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Ethics (Handbook)", "author": "Oxford"}
+{"name": "publisher-56", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Ethics (Companion)", "author": "Routledge"}
+{"name": "publisher-57", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Christian Ethics (2004) (Companion)", "author": "Cambridge"}
+{"name": "publisher-58", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Christian Ethics.2009 (Companion)", "author": "Cambridge"}
+{"name": "publisher-59", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Christian Ethics [2006] (Companion)", "author": "Cambridge"}
+{"name": "publisher-60", "kind": "publisher", "title": "British Drama [Contemporary] (Companion)", "author": "Cambridge"}
+{"name": "publisher-61", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Aquinas (Second Edition)", "author": "Cambridge"}
+{"name": "publisher-62", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Aquinas", "author": "Cambridge"}
+{"name": "publisher-63", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Aquinas (Companion)", "author": "Fergus Kerr"}
+{"name": "publisher-64", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Aquinas (Companion)", "author": null}
+{"name": "publisher-65", "kind": "publisher", "title": "(Companion)", "author": "Cambridge"}
+{"name": "publisher-66", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Ethics (Companion)", "author": "  WILEY   BLACKWELL "}
+{"name": "publisher-67", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Ethics (Companions)", "author": "Cambridge"}
+{"name": "publisher-68", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Kant (Guidebook)", "author": "Routledge"}
+{"name": "publisher-69", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Mind (Contemporary Debates)", "author": "Blackwell"}
+{"name": "publisher-70", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Philosophy (Anthology)", "author": "Blackwell"}
+{"name": "publisher-71", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Theology (Studies)", "author": "SUNY"}
+{"name": "publisher-72", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Hegel (Concise)", "author": "Blackwell"}
+{"name": "publisher-73", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Ethics (Contemporary Introductions)", "author": "Routledge"}
+{"name": "publisher-74", "kind": "publisher", "title": "X (Companion)", "author": "Cambridge"}
+{"name": "publisher-75", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Ethics (companion)", "author": "cambridge"}
+{"name": "publisher-76", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Ethics ( Companion )", "author": "Cambridge"}
+{"name": "publisher-77", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Ethics (Handbook)", "author": "Palgrave"}
+{"name": "publisher-78", "kind": "publisher", "title": "Ethics (Handbook)", "author": "Springer"}
+{"name": "publisher-79", "kind": "publisher", "title": "", "author": "Cambridge"}
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-9-0", "number": 9}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-IX-1", "number": 9}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-ix-2", "number": 9}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-ix-3", "number": 9}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-XX-4", "number": 20}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-0-5", "number": null}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-201-6", "number": null}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-200-7", "number": 200}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-1-8", "number": 1}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-xxi-9", "number": null}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-nine-10", "number": null}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-blank-11", "number": null}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-blank-12", "number": null}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-i-13", "number": 1}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-III-14", "number": 3}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-c-15", "number": null}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-l-16", "number": null}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-12.5-17", "number": null}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-07-18", "number": 7}
+{"kind": "number", "name": "number-\u0663-19", "number": 3}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-20", "series": "The Philokalia", "volume": 3}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-21", "series": "Collected Works of C.G. Jung", "volume": 9}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-22", "series": "The Art of Computer Programming", "volume": 3}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-23", "series": "Raven Son", "volume": 1}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-24", "series": null, "volume": null}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-25", "series": null, "volume": null}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-26", "series": null, "volume": null}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-27", "series": null, "volume": null}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-28", "series": "A History of Philosophy", "volume": 4}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-29", "series": "A History of Philosophy", "volume": 4}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-30", "series": "The Lord of the Rings", "volume": 2}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-31", "series": "Summa Theologica", "volume": 2}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-32", "series": "Institutes", "volume": 4}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-33", "series": "Harry Potter", "volume": 7}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-34", "series": "The Decline and Fall", "volume": 20}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-35", "series": null, "volume": null}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-36", "series": "Works", "volume": 3}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-37", "series": null, "volume": null}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-38", "series": null, "volume": null}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-39", "series": null, "volume": null}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-40", "series": null, "volume": null}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-41", "series": null, "volume": null}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-42", "series": null, "volume": null}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-43", "series": null, "volume": null}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-44", "series": "abcd", "volume": 1}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-45", "series": "Raven Son", "volume": 12}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-46", "series": "Raven Son", "volume": 3}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-47", "series": "Series", "volume": 2}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-48", "series": "Jung", "volume": 9}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-49", "series": "Jung", "volume": 9}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-50", "series": null, "volume": null}
+{"kind": "volume", "name": "volume-51", "series": "The Cambridge History", "volume": 2}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-52", "proposed_title": "The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas", "series": "Cambridge Companions"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-53", "proposed_title": null, "series": "Blackwell Companions"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-54", "proposed_title": "Logic: A Very Short Introduction", "series": "Very Short Introductions"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-55", "proposed_title": "The Oxford Handbook of Ethics", "series": "Oxford Handbooks"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-56", "proposed_title": "The Routledge Companion to Ethics", "series": "Routledge Companions"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-57", "proposed_title": "The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics", "series": "Cambridge Companions"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-58", "proposed_title": "The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics", "series": "Cambridge Companions"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-59", "proposed_title": "The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics", "series": "Cambridge Companions"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-60", "proposed_title": "The Cambridge Companion to British Drama", "series": "Cambridge Companions"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-61", "proposed_title": null, "series": null}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-62", "proposed_title": null, "series": null}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-63", "proposed_title": null, "series": null}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-64", "proposed_title": null, "series": null}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-65", "proposed_title": null, "series": null}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-66", "proposed_title": null, "series": null}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-67", "proposed_title": "The Cambridge Companion to Ethics", "series": "Cambridge Companions"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-68", "proposed_title": "Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant", "series": "Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-69", "proposed_title": "Contemporary Debates in Mind", "series": "Contemporary Debates"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-70", "proposed_title": null, "series": "Blackwell Anthologies"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-71", "proposed_title": null, "series": "SUNY Studies"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-72", "proposed_title": null, "series": "Blackwell Concise Companions"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-73", "proposed_title": null, "series": "Routledge Contemporary Introductions"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-74", "proposed_title": null, "series": null}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-75", "proposed_title": "The Cambridge Companion to Ethics", "series": "Cambridge Companions"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-76", "proposed_title": "The Cambridge Companion to Ethics", "series": "Cambridge Companions"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-77", "proposed_title": null, "series": "Palgrave Handbooks"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-78", "proposed_title": null, "series": "Springer Handbooks"}
+{"kind": "publisher", "name": "publisher-79", "proposed_title": null, "series": null}
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+"""Read a series and a volume off a title the way the book pipeline did.
+
+The functions the module exports are imported rather than copied — it has no
+import-time side effects, unlike the modules the other oracles copy from.
+
+    python3 oracle/series.py < cases.ndjson
+
+One case per line: {name, title, author}. Writes one JSON answer per line.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import sys
+
+from book_pipeline.series import (  # noqa: E402
+    parse_publisher_series,
+    parse_volume,
+    roman_or_int,
+)
+
+
+def answer(case: dict) -> dict:
+    kind = case["kind"]
+    if kind == "number":
+        return {"number": roman_or_int(case["text"])}
+    if kind == "volume":
+        found = parse_volume(case["title"])
+        return {"series": found[0] if found else None,
+                "volume": found[1] if found else None}
+    if kind == "publisher":
+        found = parse_publisher_series(case["title"], case.get("author"))
+        return {"proposed_title": found[0] if found else None,
+                "series": found[1] if found else None}
+    raise SystemExit(f"no such case: {kind}")
+
+
+for line in sys.stdin:
+    if not line.strip():
+        continue
+    case = json.loads(line)
+    out = {"name": case["name"], "kind": case["kind"]}
+    out.update(answer(case))
+    sys.stdout.write(json.dumps(out, sort_keys=True) + "\n")
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ type Written = Result<Vec<String>, String>;
 type Job = (&'static str, fn() -> Written);

 fn main() -> ExitCode {
-    let jobs: [Job; 17] = [
+    let jobs: [Job; 18] = [
        ("tokens", tokens),
        ("unescape", unescape),
        ("chunkmd", chunkmd),
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ fn main() -> ExitCode {
        ("mdsplit", mdsplit),
        ("avplan", avplan),
        ("pdfgutter", pdfgutter),
+        ("seriesof", seriesof),
    ];

    for (name, job) in jobs {
@@ -219,6 +220,18 @@ fn cueseg() -> Written {
    Ok(written)
 }

+fn seriesof() -> Written {
+    let dir = parity::golden("seriesof");
+    std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
+
+    let cases = parity::dir().join("cases/seriesof/cases.ndjson");
+    let text = std::fs::read_to_string(&cases).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
+    let answers = parity::run_oracle("series.py", &text)?;
+    let path = dir.join("cases.ndjson");
+    std::fs::write(&path, answers).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
+    Ok(vec![path.display().to_string()])
+}
+
 fn pdfgutter() -> Written {
    let dir = parity::golden("pdfgutter");
    std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).map_err(|e| e.to_string())?;
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+//! Every series and volume read off a title must match the Python exactly.
+//!
+//! The cost of getting it wrong is a shelf that looks right and is not: a
+//! volume filed under the wrong series disappears from the work it belongs
+//! to, and a title reconstructed from the wrong template renames a book to
+//! something nobody published.
+
+use serde_json::Value;
+
+fn records(text: &str) -> Vec<Value> {
+    text.lines()
+        .filter(|line| !line.trim().is_empty())
+        .map(|line| serde_json::from_str(line).expect("valid JSON"))
+        .collect()
+}
+
+fn cases() -> Vec<Value> {
+    let text = std::fs::read_to_string(parity::dir().join("cases/seriesof/cases.ndjson"))
+        .expect("a readable case file");
+    records(&text)
+}
+
+/// A string field, where `null` and absent mean the same thing.
+fn text(value: &Value) -> Option<&str> {
+    value.as_str()
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn every_series_matches_python() {
+    let golden = records(&parity::read_golden_text("seriesof/cases.ndjson"));
+    let cases = cases();
+    assert_eq!(cases.len(), golden.len(), "case count moved — regenerate");
+
+    let mut wrong: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
+    for (case, theirs) in cases.iter().zip(&golden) {
+        let name = case["name"].as_str().expect("a name");
+        let kind = case["kind"].as_str().expect("a kind");
+        assert_eq!(theirs["name"].as_str(), Some(name), "cases out of order");
+
+        let mut note = |field: &str, ours: String, theirs: &Value| {
+            wrong.push(format!("{name}.{field}: python {theirs}, rust {ours}"));
+        };
+
+        match kind {
+            "number" => {
+                let ours = seriesof::roman_or_int(case["text"].as_str().expect("text"));
+                let theirs_number = theirs["number"].as_u64().map(|n| n as u32);
+                if ours != theirs_number {
+                    note("number", format!("{ours:?}"), &theirs["number"]);
+                }
+            }
+            "volume" => {
+                let found = seriesof::parse_volume(case["title"].as_str().expect("a title"));
+                let (series, volume) = match &found {
+                    Some((series, volume)) => (Some(series.as_str()), Some(*volume)),
+                    None => (None, None),
+                };
+                if series != text(&theirs["series"]) {
+                    note("series", format!("{series:?}"), &theirs["series"]);
+                }
+                let theirs_volume = theirs["volume"].as_u64().map(|n| n as u32);
+                if volume != theirs_volume {
+                    note("volume", format!("{volume:?}"), &theirs["volume"]);
+                }
+            }
+            "publisher" => {
+                let author = case["author"].as_str();
+                let found = author.and_then(|author| {
+                    seriesof::publisher_series(case["title"].as_str().expect("a title"), author)
+                });
+                let (proposed, series) = match &found {
+                    Some((proposed, series)) => (proposed.as_deref(), Some(series.as_str())),
+                    None => (None, None),
+                };
+                if proposed != text(&theirs["proposed_title"]) {
+                    note(
+                        "proposed_title",
+                        format!("{proposed:?}"),
+                        &theirs["proposed_title"],
+                    );
+                }
+                if series != text(&theirs["series"]) {
+                    note("series", format!("{series:?}"), &theirs["series"]);
+                }
+            }
+            other => panic!("nothing answers a {other} case"),
+        }
+    }
+
+    assert!(
+        wrong.is_empty(),
+        "{} answers differ:\n{}",
+        wrong.len(),
+        wrong
+            .iter()
+            .take(20)
+            .map(|line| line.chars().take(200).collect::<String>())
+            .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+            .join("\n")
+    );
+}
+
+/// All three questions have to be asked, or the file proves less than it
+/// looks like it does.
+#[test]
+fn every_kind_of_case_is_present() {
+    let cases = cases();
+    for kind in ["number", "volume", "publisher"] {
+        assert!(
+            cases.iter().any(|case| case["kind"] == kind),
+            "no {kind} case"
+        );
+    }
+}
+
+/// Catches a golden file drifting away from a Python that has moved on.
+#[test]
+#[cfg(feature = "python")]
+fn the_golden_file_still_matches_live_python() {
+    let cases = std::fs::read_to_string(parity::dir().join("cases/seriesof/cases.ndjson"))
+        .expect("a readable case file");
+    let live = parity::run_oracle("series.py", &cases).expect("the oracle runs");
+    assert_eq!(live, parity::read_golden_text("seriesof/cases.ndjson"));
+}