Webform for ONIX creation

The small-business solution that makes metadata easy

Webform is an easy-to-use online tool that allows small operations to create and manage book metadata. It’s for small presses, unconventional publishers, museums, universities, self-published authors … anyone who wants to provide clean, accurate metadata about their books to the supply chain but may not have the resources to create complex ONIX 3 files from scratch.

Webform provides a clear and intuitive way to create, update, manage, and export key metadata elements and image assets for your books through a simple online interface. 

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With Webform you can

  • Create bibliographic records for your books from scratch using a simple, intuitive form
  • Import bibliographic data from an ONIX file into Webform for further editing
  • Validate your bibliographic data according to ONIX rules
  • Easily export your data to BiblioShare with just a few clicks, making it accessible to organizations across the industry through BiblioShare’s web services
  • Transfer your data to other trading partners by setting up additional FTP connections
  • Download your data as an ONIX 3 file to send to your trading partners using other delivery methods
  • Create records for multiple formats of the same book quickly and easily using the Duplicate feature

Webform provides a clear and intuitive way to create, update, manage, and export key metadata elements and image assets for your books through a simple online interface. 

Pricing

Annual subscription pricing is based on the number of records your organization maintains using Webform (each ISBN is a record).

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Record limit 10 25 50 100 200 500
Annual price $50 $100 $150 $175 $200 $375

* To create an account with more than 500 records, please contact us for a quote.

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Why choose Webform?

Extensive subject coding support

Webform supports both the BISAC and Thema subject coding systems used in North American and international markets.

Easy FTP Transfer

Export your data directly to BiblioShare with just a few clicks, making it available for downstream data partners to access through BiblioShare web services. You can also set up additional trading partners to directly transfer files to alternate FTP locations.

Time-saving workflows

Duplicate your print book data to quickly and easily create metadata records for your ebooks and other formats.

Affordable and flexible

Low annual subscription costs reflect the number of titles you have to manage. Since there is no contract required, you can cancel your account at any time and take a download of your ONIX record(s) with you.

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What Webform users are saying:

“It is fairly easy to use, especially for beginners, versus the full ONIX system.”

Support and learning

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Getting started with Webform

Learn how Webform can help you produce ONIX files and how it integrates with BiblioShare to distribute your metadata to websites and retailers across Canada.

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How to use the new advanced form

A new addition to Webform, the advanced form, will help you add more subject codes, marketing details, and other useful ONIX datapoints to create a more complete record for each book.

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Add cover, interior, and contributor images

Learn about the ways you can add images from your computer to Webform for distribution in your ONIX files.

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