Standards & Metadata
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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?
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Wherein we answer the question, “Are the new Young Adult BISAC subject codes being used?”
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There have been some updates to Thema! What are the advantages of Thema when we use BISACs in North America? Well let us tell you.
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Not sure where to get started with the YA BISAC codes? With the help of BISG’s 1-to-1 map we break it down.