BookCampTO, my personal favourite (un)conference, rolled around again this past weekend. High fives to the organizing committee of Erin Balser, Mark Bertils, Alexa Clark, and Hugh McGuire—great work all around!
So, why do I love BookCamp so much?
ONIXEdit vs. EXA Editor
EXA Editor is the venerable XML editor for use with ONIX that BookNet Canada made available as a free download for the past few years. It was an excellent product with a not-so-excellent GUI (nerdese for your ability to find and click on things) and a useful tool for learning about ONIX. A number of publishers’ ONIX programs are, or were, based on it.Here’s how the new ONIXEdit stacks up.
Why I Went to BookCamp Instead of Sleeping In
This was my second year attending BookCamp Toronto. I admit to having high expectations for this unconference ever since last year when I came away feeling ignited! Sadly I didn’t get the same fire started for me this time around. I’m not saying that BookCamp did not provide great discussion but that little extra something was missing. I think what it came down to was that I am exhausted!
BNC Visits the Espresso Book Machine at McMaster University
Earlier this week, the BookNet team took a field trip to Titles McMaster University Bookstore to check out their Espresso Book Machine (EBM). Mark Lefebvre, BNC Board member and our gracious host for the day, took us on a tour of Titles and gave us a live demo of the EBM (with some help from Laura the EBM magician).
Don’t know what an EBM is?
Cracking Codes: New BISAC Subjects on BNC SalesData
Maybe this isn’t code breaking Robert-Langdon-style, but the new BISAC code list that came out in November 2009 is reflected in BNC SalesData now. After it was released, it was integrated into R.R. Bowker’s bibliographic database and then from Bowker into BNC SalesData around the middle of April.
Here is a refresher on why we use BISAC.
BNC SalesData Tip #10: Top 5 Favourite Tips
In honour of Deanna McFadden’s Tech Forum talk , where she extols the virtues of Top 10 lists on the internet, I’ve decided to make it even easier by posting a Top 5 list of my favourite tips for SalesData.
Making Information Pay 2010: The Newbie's Recap
BISG’s Making Information Pay 2010: Points of No Return was only yesterday morning, but it still feels like a dream. That may have to do with the inevitable daze of my first trip to NYC, but it may also be chalked up to the high speculation-factor of most of the morning’s talks.
BISG's Making Information Pay 2010: The Highlights
A few of us from BNC made the trip to Manhattan for this year’s Making Information Pay from the Book Industry Study Group. This morning conference is always jam-packed with information, and this year was no exception.
Happy Birthday, ONIX!
Facebook's Open Graph Has Huge Potential for Books
Facebook announced it’s Open Graph earlier this week, opening up to the rest of the web and making the user experience more social in the process. But what does this mean for books?
