BiblioShare

Quality-assured metadata spread far and wide

BiblioShare is a free quality-controlled aggregation system that collects and disseminates bibliographic data using ONIX, making it easier to find, market, and sell books in Canada.

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For publishers

  • Maintain one set of files that is automatically distributed to retailers, publishers, libraries, and more across the country
  • Quality assurance through our ONIX file validation
  • All your records and assets are in one place
  • Send cover images, samples, teacher’s guides, and other material with your ONIX record
  • Create quality ONIX files with Webform and export to BiblioShare with just a few clicks

For retailers

  • Large dataset: 3 million product records and counting
  • The data is validated so you can be sure you’re pulling useful files
  • Various free web services makes pulling and displaying the data easy

For libraries

  • Access data for over 3 million titles, including covers and Canadian authorship information
  • The MARC web service returns a MARC record for specified EANs

Sign up for BiblioShare

Sign up to send data to BiblioShare.
(In order to send data to BiblioShare, you first need to have ONIX files, if you need help creating them, take a look at Webform,
or if you’re looking to get data from BiblioShare, check out our web services.)

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Why sign up for BiblioShare?

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Made for the Canadian market

BiblioShare is a Canadian-born and industry-led project. It fully supports the Canadian identifier to give Canadian books the recognition they deserve.

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Integrated into CataList

BiblioShare data powers CataList and the bibliographic data is updated automatically whenever the metadata is updated.

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It’s free

There are no start-up costs for sending data to BiblioShare, uploading and testing files are free, and all regular data pulls are free, too.

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Support online discovery

Getting your metadata right and making it available to the Canadian supply chain supports those selling or promoting books online.

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What BiblioShare users are saying:

“Having started my career prior to ONIX, I continue to value all support for the orderly and simplified distribution of rich metadata. BiblioShare is a very good tool and the support is truly excellent.”

“The entire team at BiblioShare are incredible — always willing to help and educate.”

“BiblioShare is an absolute timesaver.”

Support and learning

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Quick start guide

Learn how to start sending data to BiblioShare. This guide will give you an overview of the BiblioShare workflow and help you get set up.

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Bibliographic data distribution

Find out where your data may end up with this overview of all the web services provided by BiblioShare.

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Bookstore Builder Shopify App

This app lets you set up your online bookstore with publisher-supplied book metadata from BiblioShare. Find out how it works, here.

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