Standards & Metadata
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BookNet’s Tom Richardson explains all you need to know about using sets in ONIX 2.1 and 3.0.
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The BISG has added four new LGBT BISACs to the list of subject codes. Are publishers using them?
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There has been a recent slew of standards updates, from subject codes to ONIX, so our Bibliographic Manager Tom Richardson is here to round up all the excitement into one handy overview.
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Users of BNC BiblioShare File Quality Reports may have noticed the appearance of a new citation about Country of Manufacture, so Tom has taken to the blog to explain.
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EDItEUR just released a new series of Application Notes. Tom Richardson takes this opportunity to highlight a few of them.
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ONIX Code lists Issue 38 for ONIX 3.0 has been released. We’ve highlighted some changes of particular note for you below.
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Amazon’s European stores are adopting the Thema subject classification system and publishing an internal “browse by subject” tree to show how they use the subject classifications.
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There is nothing more divisive than a date in metadata. Canada, land of compromise, has a new guideline for dates and it neatly solves the issue by saying play nice and be accurate.
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Your ONIX software may be converting your ISBN-10s to ISBN-13s or vice versa. We tell you why that’s a problem!
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Recently, the ONIX International Steering Committee announced a general statement of intent that ONIX 2.1 code lists should become truly and fully static. What does that mean for you?