BISG WEBCAST -- ONIX for Books V3.0 Implemention

This BISG WEBCAST took place Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. To register for future BISG Webcasts, please visit: http://www.bisg.org/event-cat-6-webcasts.php To download further information about ONIX for Books, please visit: http://www.bisg.org/what-we-do-21-15-onix-for-books.php

What level of familiarity do you have with ONIX? (any version)

Richard Stark
Director of Product Data, Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Chair, BISAC’s Metadata Committee
Richard Stark is the Director of Product Data for Barnes & Noble, a position he has held for the past eleven years. He has been active in book industry standards since 1995. Since 1999, Richard has chaired the BISAC Metadata Committee, the group that governs bibliographic data standards for the U.S. book industry. He was a member of the ISO working group that revised the ISBN standard and the ISO working group that developed the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI).
Richard has been a bookseller for twenty years. His experience includes positions in store management and purchasing at Barnes & Noble, Borders, and independent booksellers. He was educated in the Great Books Program at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM.

ONIX is the product of negotiation and compromise
Many data points in ONIX are specific to the business needs of a given country or market
There are often multiple ways of presenting the same data
ONIX recipients want consistency

Most major players in our market have indicated that they plan to implement ONIX 3.0 early in 2010
Establishing Best Practices now allows all ONIX implementers to aim for the same target
Consistent practices for eBook data early in the development of this business will save us trouble down the road

A focus on key data elements
Detailed style rules for each data element
Usage guidelines and examples provided
Incorporation into BISG’s Product Data Certification Program (PDCP)

Identification of key data elements
Definition(s)
Style rules
Examples of proper usage
Details on how to present unusual data
Indication of when to provide this data
Business case for supplying this data
Guidelines on presenting this data in ONIX

This record is for an actual eBook, although the ISBN has been changed to protect the innocent
I will go through this record in detail using XMLSPY
We will compare this record to a record for the same book in ONIX 2.1

XML can be intimidating if you are not familiar with it, but it is actually easy to read once you understand the tagging and structure
You can code your internal product database to output consistently-formatted, valid XML records for each product

Begins Aug 21st, at next Metadata Committee meeting
Includes revision of Best Practices for ONIX 2.1
Will highlight Best Practices on digital products
Reviewed & discussed at Metadata Committee mtgs. on 9/24, 10/16, 11/20, and 12/18
Final draft approved by Metadata on 12/18
Final draft endorsed by BISG Board on 1/21

Amazon.com
Baker & Taylor
Barnes & Noble
BookNet Canada
R.R. Bowker
Firebrand Technologies
Hachette Book Group
Ingram
Library of Congress
McGraw-Hill
NetRead
Oxford University Press
Pearson Education
Random House
Simon & Schuster
John Wiley & Sons
Zondervan
All BISG members are welcome to join!

Now what?...

Update your company’s entry in BISG’s ONIX Users Directory
http://www.bisg.org/directory/onix.php
Join Metadata Committee discussions on ONIX for Books 3.0 Best Practices
Implement ONIX for Books v3.0…

Presenter Contact Information
Richard Stark: [email_address]
Website: www.bisg.org/committee-2-14-metadata-committee
BISG Contact Information
Angela Bole: [email_address]
Website: www.bisg.org

BISG WEBCAST -- ONIX for Books V3.0 Implemention

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