Standards & Metadata

Standards & Metadata

Guest post: The life-changing magic of tidying up your data

January 11, 2016

Jen Gauthier of Greystone Books shows us the difference that cleaning up your metadata can make. Clean data, new year, new you.
Standards & Metadata

What do the new YA BISAC codes mean for BNC products?

December 22, 2015

Nervous about how the new young adult BISAC codes are going to impact your data and your BookNet data services? Don’t be, we’re ready when you are.
Standards & Metadata

Introducing the BISAC subject headings: 2015 edition

December 10, 2015

YA is really shaking up the BISAC world with an important announcement today! YA and juvenille have officially split. Read on to discover changes that impact every level of the supply chain and what you can be doing to transition!
BiblioShare, ONIX, Standards & Metadata

ONIX 3.0 – A Gnome’s Perspective on Digital Values for the Faint of Heart

July 8, 2014

Got ebooks? Here’s a primer on ONIX 3.0 just for you. We’ll get you set up with the ONIX manual, show you which sections to look at, and explain a bit about why things are set up the way they are. Bonus: Your host is a gnome named Biblio. A metagnome, if you will. You’ll…
Standards & Metadata, Thema

Introducing BNC’s BISAC to Thema Translator

April 24, 2014

OK, so you’ve heard about Thema, the new international standard for book classification, but you’re already using BISAC. Is there an easy way to find Thema codes for your titles based on the BISAC codes you already have? Never fear: the BISAC to Thema Translator is here!
ONIX, Standards & Metadata

ONIX 2.1 to 3.0 Converters: What They Can and Can’t Do

April 2, 2014

Converting ONIX 2.1 to ONIX 3.0 is a very useful way to learn where “stuff” goes in ONIX 3.0 but publishers are confused why, once they’ve done the conversion, it’s just not good enough. I’ve been participating in arguments about it–and, as always, after the fact, came up with a succinct explanation. Be happy you…
ONIX, Standards & Metadata

What Does It Mean to Implement ONIX 3.0?

May 9, 2013

It’s a vexing question. I like to explain ONIX for Books by separating out the standard (what you track as metadata) from the technical side (XML, which can be thankfully ignored in this post). ONIX as a standard is a way for two companies to exchange information about books without ambiguity by using published definitions.…
BiblioShare, ONIX, Standards & Metadata

Getting Data Dropped: Support and Update Your Records

June 16, 2011

BNC BiblioShare has been getting queries from publishers asking why after dropping a record from their ONIX feed it hasn’t disappeared from The 49th Shelf. BiblioShare supplies data to a lot more firms than The 49th Shelf and that list is growing, but we like that you’re paying attention and finding problems in 49thShelf.com. Here’s…
BiblioShare, Ebooks, ONIX, Standards & Metadata

Best Practices for E-Books in ONIX

November 3, 2010

What are the general guidelines for producing “good” ONIX support for e-books? Quality data exchange requires two things: clarity about how Product Identifiers are being used and the use of the ONIX 3.0 standard. Given that we are lacking both of these things, the answer to how to make a “good” e-book is a bit…
ONIX, Standards & Metadata

ONIX Is Easy

October 14, 2010

At BookNet, we sometimes find ourselves trying to defend ONIX . People are often asking, “Why can’t it be easy?” But it is. After the last time I heard this I thought that a review of why ONIX is easy was due.