ONIX (Online Information eXchange) is a standard for representing and communicating book industry product information in XML format. It was developed in the late 1990s and is currently maintained by several international organizations. ONIX has a complex schema with over 200 data elements organized into blocks and groups to provide detailed product information like titles, contributors, prices, and formats. While powerful, its complexity can be unwieldy for small entities to implement.
BISG WEBCAST -- ONIX for Books V3.0 Implementionbisg
In April 2009, EDItEUR announced the release of a major new version of the ONIX for Books standard: ONIX 3.0. During this 60-minute webcast, Richard Stark, Director of Product Data for Barnes & Noble, Inc. and Chair of BISAC's Metadata Committee, described best practices for implementing this important data standard.
BISG WEBCAST -- ONIX For Books v3.0 -- Supporting New Metadata For eBooksbisg
In partnership with the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), BISG presented the third in a series of ONIX 3.0 educational webcasts. During this session, David Martin from EDItEUR's ONIX Support Team and Brian Green, Executive Director of the International ISBN Agency, focused on how ONIX 3.0 provides new support for digital publishing, along with requirements for identifying ebooks in our industry's complex new supply chain.
ONIX: Migrating from 2.1 to 3.0, presented by Graham Bell, Executive Director...bisg
This presentation was originally give as part of a BISG webcast on October 14, 2014, and then again on November 12, 2014. The webcast focused on the migration from ONIX 2.1 to ONIX 3.0, detailing the key differences between the two message standards, and the benefits and extra functionality offered by the new format. EDItEUR's Graham Bell outlined the areas of the message where the changes are simple to deal with and offered advice on those areas of the message where more significant modifications will be required. This presentation is particularly timely because of the impending sunset of ONIX 2.1 support at the end of 2014.
Navigating the Transition from ONIX 2.1 to 3.0 bisg
Graham Bell, Executive Director of EDItEUR, focuses on the migration from ONIX 2.1 to ONIX 3.0, detailing the key differences between the two message standards, and the benefits and extra functionality offered by the new format. This presentation will outline the areas of the message where the changes are simple to deal with, and offer advice on those areas of the message where more significant modifications will be required.
rNews: Embedding Metadata in On-line News
From the talk at SemTech
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
09:45 AM - 10:35 AM
Level: Business / Non-Technical
Case Study
Location: Yosemite A
The IPTC, a consortium of the world's major news agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors, recently released rNews, a semantic standard for on-line news. rNews uses RDFa to annotate HTML documents with news-specific metadata, to help with search, ad placement, aggregation and the sharing of on-line news. Jayson Lorenzen, a software engineer with Business Wire and one of the IPTC Member organization delegates working on rNews, will give an overview of the IPTC, the rNews standard, why rNews is needed and how the standard was eventually created. The talk will include use cases and live demonstrations of rNews and will end with a call to action for you to participate; rNews is currently at version 0.5 and the IPTC is looking for feedback on how to improve the standard.
BISG WEBCAST -- ONIX for Books V3.0 Implementionbisg
In April 2009, EDItEUR announced the release of a major new version of the ONIX for Books standard: ONIX 3.0. During this 60-minute webcast, Richard Stark, Director of Product Data for Barnes & Noble, Inc. and Chair of BISAC's Metadata Committee, described best practices for implementing this important data standard.
BISG WEBCAST -- ONIX For Books v3.0 -- Supporting New Metadata For eBooksbisg
In partnership with the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), BISG presented the third in a series of ONIX 3.0 educational webcasts. During this session, David Martin from EDItEUR's ONIX Support Team and Brian Green, Executive Director of the International ISBN Agency, focused on how ONIX 3.0 provides new support for digital publishing, along with requirements for identifying ebooks in our industry's complex new supply chain.
ONIX: Migrating from 2.1 to 3.0, presented by Graham Bell, Executive Director...bisg
This presentation was originally give as part of a BISG webcast on October 14, 2014, and then again on November 12, 2014. The webcast focused on the migration from ONIX 2.1 to ONIX 3.0, detailing the key differences between the two message standards, and the benefits and extra functionality offered by the new format. EDItEUR's Graham Bell outlined the areas of the message where the changes are simple to deal with and offered advice on those areas of the message where more significant modifications will be required. This presentation is particularly timely because of the impending sunset of ONIX 2.1 support at the end of 2014.
Navigating the Transition from ONIX 2.1 to 3.0 bisg
Graham Bell, Executive Director of EDItEUR, focuses on the migration from ONIX 2.1 to ONIX 3.0, detailing the key differences between the two message standards, and the benefits and extra functionality offered by the new format. This presentation will outline the areas of the message where the changes are simple to deal with, and offer advice on those areas of the message where more significant modifications will be required.
rNews: Embedding Metadata in On-line News
From the talk at SemTech
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
09:45 AM - 10:35 AM
Level: Business / Non-Technical
Case Study
Location: Yosemite A
The IPTC, a consortium of the world's major news agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors, recently released rNews, a semantic standard for on-line news. rNews uses RDFa to annotate HTML documents with news-specific metadata, to help with search, ad placement, aggregation and the sharing of on-line news. Jayson Lorenzen, a software engineer with Business Wire and one of the IPTC Member organization delegates working on rNews, will give an overview of the IPTC, the rNews standard, why rNews is needed and how the standard was eventually created. The talk will include use cases and live demonstrations of rNews and will end with a call to action for you to participate; rNews is currently at version 0.5 and the IPTC is looking for feedback on how to improve the standard.
eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is an extended XML, a tagged data (meta-data) which is machine readable and a standard way to communicate business & financial info.
This presentation introduces XBRL & MAIA Intelligence's postXBRL solution with BI for financial reporting.
BookNet Canada Bibliographic Manager and general standards person, Tom Richardson provides your yearly standards overview with a focus on metadata basics. Looking for information on where to start when it comes to participating in standards? Start here. Or, if you’re well-versed in standards but you want to know what you’ll need to know for the next couple of years, you’ll find that here, too!
Link to presentation video and slides: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/standardsgoals-for-2023-standards-certification-roundup/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 25, 2023 with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
From designer clothing and top brand shoes to home goods and jewe.docxhanneloremccaffery
From designer clothing and top brand shoes to home goods and jewelry, Amazon has set themselves apart from other online retailers by becoming an online superstore that offers consumers the ability to purchase just about anything that they can imagine in one place. Recognizing the rapid growth of internet use, in 1994 Jeff Bezos left his job as the Vice President of a Wall Street brokerage firm to begin selling books over the internet. “Get Big Fast” was not only Bezos’ mantra, it became Amazon’s strategic business model. (Lashinsky, 2016) Amazon initially began in Bezos’ garage, but within 2 month’s had sales of over $ 20,000 per week. As Amazon grew and began offering additional products, they purchased several fulfillment centers to expedite the shipping of their most popular items. But Amazon realized that these fulfillment centers alone would be enough to differentiate them from other online superstores. So in 2005 Amazon launched Amazon Prime, a yearly fee that allows consumers to receive their orders using 2-day shipping at no additional charge catapulting its success. In the past 22 years, Amazon has established itself as one of the most successful retailers in the world with 80 distribution centers worldwide.
Amazon’s growth strategy was simple yet effective. They wanted to become the singular place where consumers could locate and purchase almost anything available.in the retail market; and that strategy has proven very successful over the past 2 decades. Among Amazon’s bestselling items are Lego’s, Levi’s jeans, Play Station game cards and the Amazon Fire Stick, an HDMI streaming stick that allows users to enjoy thousands of channels and games “including access to over 250,000 TV episodes and movies on Netflix, Amazon Video, HBO NOW, Hulu, and more”. (Amazon, N.D.) Amazon has found some fierce competition in companies such as Walmart, Target and Big Lots, but they continue to outperform their competitors in every way. When Amazon initially went public in 1997, just two years after its inception, stock shares were offered at a mere $ 18 per share. (Public, NASDAQ:AMZN). Increasing approximately 43% its original price, Amazon’s stock is now trading at $ 772.44 per share. A long way from its humble beginnings as an online bookstore operated out of Bezos’ Bellvue, Washington garage, Amazon now employs over 240,000 employees worldwide. Amazon’s impressive Seattle, Washington headquarters occupy (3) – 37-story office buildings and (3) dome shaped buildings. (Elmer-DeWitt, 2016) “The executive team at Amazon’s Headquarters is comprised of Officers and Directors.” (Amazon.com, N.D.) Bezos still acts as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors; In addition to Jeffrey Blackburn, Sebastian Gunningham, Andrew Jassey, Steven Kessel, Diego Piacentini, Thomas Szkutak and Jeffrey Wilke as the company’s Senior Vice President’s and Shelley Reynolds and David Zapolsky as the Vice President’s. (Am ...
Japanese AdTech Industry, Community, and Use-cases on AWS -
Dynalyst, fluct, IM-DMP, UNICORN.
At "AdTech on AWS" event in Seoul on August 30th in 2017 https://aws.amazon.com/ko/events/seminars/ad-tech-on-aws-011/
#AWSAdTechJP
Lately, OrientDB has been my go-to database of choice. Here, I’ll walk you through how to use it and it’s HTTP REST API.
https://medium.com/@anthonyblatner/orientdb-http-rest-api-904947dcf14d
c0c0n, previously known as Cyber Safe, is an annual event conducted as part of the International Information Security Day. The Information Security Research Association along with Matriux Security Community is organizing a 2 day International Security and Hacking Conference titled c0c0n 2010, as part of Information Security Day 2010. The event is supported by the Kochi City Police. Various technical, non-technical, legal and community events are organized as part of the program. c0c0n 2010 is scheduled on 05, 06 Aug 2010 The number of digital security incidents and cyber crimes are increasing daily on a proportionate rate. The industry is demanding more and more security professionals and controls to curb this never ending threat to information systems. c0c0n is aimed at providing a platform to discuss, showcase, educate, understand and spread awareness on the latest trends in information, cyber and hi-tech crimes. It also aims to provide a hand-shaking platform for various corporate, government organizations including the various investigation agencies, academia, research organizations and other industry leaders and players for better co-ordination in making the cyber world a better and safe place to be.
c0c0n, previously known as Cyber Safe, is an annual event conducted as part of the International Information Security Day. The Information Security Research Association along with Matriux Security Community is organizing a 2 day International Security and Hacking Conference titled c0c0n 2010, as part of Information Security Day 2010. The event is supported by the Kochi City Police. Various technical, non-technical, legal and community events are organized as part of the program. c0c0n 2010 is scheduled on 05, 06 Aug 2010
The number of digital security incidents and cyber crimes are increasing daily on a proportionate rate. The industry is demanding more and more security professionals and controls to curb this never ending threat to information systems.
c0c0n is aimed at providing a platform to discuss, showcase, educate, understand and spread awareness on the latest trends in information, cyber and hi-tech crimes. It also aims to provide a hand-shaking platform for various corporate, government organizations including the various investigation agencies, academia, research organizations and other industry leaders and players for better co-ordination in making the cyber world a better and safe place to be.
eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is an extended XML, a tagged data (meta-data) which is machine readable and a standard way to communicate business & financial info.
This presentation introduces XBRL & MAIA Intelligence's postXBRL solution with BI for financial reporting.
BookNet Canada Bibliographic Manager and general standards person, Tom Richardson provides your yearly standards overview with a focus on metadata basics. Looking for information on where to start when it comes to participating in standards? Start here. Or, if you’re well-versed in standards but you want to know what you’ll need to know for the next couple of years, you’ll find that here, too!
Link to presentation video and slides: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/standardsgoals-for-2023-standards-certification-roundup/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 25, 2023 with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
From designer clothing and top brand shoes to home goods and jewe.docxhanneloremccaffery
From designer clothing and top brand shoes to home goods and jewelry, Amazon has set themselves apart from other online retailers by becoming an online superstore that offers consumers the ability to purchase just about anything that they can imagine in one place. Recognizing the rapid growth of internet use, in 1994 Jeff Bezos left his job as the Vice President of a Wall Street brokerage firm to begin selling books over the internet. “Get Big Fast” was not only Bezos’ mantra, it became Amazon’s strategic business model. (Lashinsky, 2016) Amazon initially began in Bezos’ garage, but within 2 month’s had sales of over $ 20,000 per week. As Amazon grew and began offering additional products, they purchased several fulfillment centers to expedite the shipping of their most popular items. But Amazon realized that these fulfillment centers alone would be enough to differentiate them from other online superstores. So in 2005 Amazon launched Amazon Prime, a yearly fee that allows consumers to receive their orders using 2-day shipping at no additional charge catapulting its success. In the past 22 years, Amazon has established itself as one of the most successful retailers in the world with 80 distribution centers worldwide.
Amazon’s growth strategy was simple yet effective. They wanted to become the singular place where consumers could locate and purchase almost anything available.in the retail market; and that strategy has proven very successful over the past 2 decades. Among Amazon’s bestselling items are Lego’s, Levi’s jeans, Play Station game cards and the Amazon Fire Stick, an HDMI streaming stick that allows users to enjoy thousands of channels and games “including access to over 250,000 TV episodes and movies on Netflix, Amazon Video, HBO NOW, Hulu, and more”. (Amazon, N.D.) Amazon has found some fierce competition in companies such as Walmart, Target and Big Lots, but they continue to outperform their competitors in every way. When Amazon initially went public in 1997, just two years after its inception, stock shares were offered at a mere $ 18 per share. (Public, NASDAQ:AMZN). Increasing approximately 43% its original price, Amazon’s stock is now trading at $ 772.44 per share. A long way from its humble beginnings as an online bookstore operated out of Bezos’ Bellvue, Washington garage, Amazon now employs over 240,000 employees worldwide. Amazon’s impressive Seattle, Washington headquarters occupy (3) – 37-story office buildings and (3) dome shaped buildings. (Elmer-DeWitt, 2016) “The executive team at Amazon’s Headquarters is comprised of Officers and Directors.” (Amazon.com, N.D.) Bezos still acts as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors; In addition to Jeffrey Blackburn, Sebastian Gunningham, Andrew Jassey, Steven Kessel, Diego Piacentini, Thomas Szkutak and Jeffrey Wilke as the company’s Senior Vice President’s and Shelley Reynolds and David Zapolsky as the Vice President’s. (Am ...
Japanese AdTech Industry, Community, and Use-cases on AWS -
Dynalyst, fluct, IM-DMP, UNICORN.
At "AdTech on AWS" event in Seoul on August 30th in 2017 https://aws.amazon.com/ko/events/seminars/ad-tech-on-aws-011/
#AWSAdTechJP
Lately, OrientDB has been my go-to database of choice. Here, I’ll walk you through how to use it and it’s HTTP REST API.
https://medium.com/@anthonyblatner/orientdb-http-rest-api-904947dcf14d
c0c0n, previously known as Cyber Safe, is an annual event conducted as part of the International Information Security Day. The Information Security Research Association along with Matriux Security Community is organizing a 2 day International Security and Hacking Conference titled c0c0n 2010, as part of Information Security Day 2010. The event is supported by the Kochi City Police. Various technical, non-technical, legal and community events are organized as part of the program. c0c0n 2010 is scheduled on 05, 06 Aug 2010 The number of digital security incidents and cyber crimes are increasing daily on a proportionate rate. The industry is demanding more and more security professionals and controls to curb this never ending threat to information systems. c0c0n is aimed at providing a platform to discuss, showcase, educate, understand and spread awareness on the latest trends in information, cyber and hi-tech crimes. It also aims to provide a hand-shaking platform for various corporate, government organizations including the various investigation agencies, academia, research organizations and other industry leaders and players for better co-ordination in making the cyber world a better and safe place to be.
c0c0n, previously known as Cyber Safe, is an annual event conducted as part of the International Information Security Day. The Information Security Research Association along with Matriux Security Community is organizing a 2 day International Security and Hacking Conference titled c0c0n 2010, as part of Information Security Day 2010. The event is supported by the Kochi City Police. Various technical, non-technical, legal and community events are organized as part of the program. c0c0n 2010 is scheduled on 05, 06 Aug 2010
The number of digital security incidents and cyber crimes are increasing daily on a proportionate rate. The industry is demanding more and more security professionals and controls to curb this never ending threat to information systems.
c0c0n is aimed at providing a platform to discuss, showcase, educate, understand and spread awareness on the latest trends in information, cyber and hi-tech crimes. It also aims to provide a hand-shaking platform for various corporate, government organizations including the various investigation agencies, academia, research organizations and other industry leaders and players for better co-ordination in making the cyber world a better and safe place to be.
3. Meeting organized by AAP in July 1999. ONIX, both name and concept, originated there. There were originally 2 levels ONIX 3.0 EDItEUR, BIC, and BISG are collaboratively responsible for the maintenance of ONIX. ONIX — A History
15. Product Description Marketing Collateral Detail Content Detail Publishing Detail Related Material Product Supply The 6 Blocks
16. The view which has been taken in the development of ONIX is that it is undesirable to use XML attributes to carry portions of the actual data content of the ONIX message. However, it is appropriate to use them to carry information which qualifies the data itself and its representation – metadata about metadata, as it were.
22. Consistency among ONIX records used to be far easier because most records were for physical materials. With the advent of the Apple app store and technologies like the iPad and Kindle, different data is now needed. A single book or album or movie can have several different prices, based on the format. This complicates an already long and complex schema. You want how much for that?!
24. Onix is long, complicated, and unwieldy for small companies and institutions. Using ONIX
25. Amazon.com help: Blank forms. Retrieved from http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_left_sib?ie=UTF8&nodeId=13685661 BookNet Canada. ONIX 3.0. Retrieved from http://www.booknetcanada.ca/index.php?option=com_wordpress&p=965&Itemid=319 Calvin, R. (2010, July 5). Accurate metadata sells books. PW review annex. Retrieved from Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text database. EDItEUR. ONIX: Release 3.0 downloads. Retrieved from http://www.editeur.org/93/Release-3.0-Downloads/ MIT Libraries. Metadata reference guide: ONIX ONline Information eXchange. Retrieved from http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/metadata/standards/onix.html Bibliography
Editor's Notes
1: (AAP = Association of American Publishers) AAP organized a meeting in July 1999 which was attended by over 60 publishers, online booksellers, etc. As a result of the meeting, the AAP funded and managed a fast-track project during the last quarter of 1999 and amazingly, ONIX Version 1 was published in January of 2000.2: What they wanted was a standard aimed primarily at enabling publishers to supply “rich” product information to Internet booksellers. 3: There were originally two levels, with level 1 being a simplified subset intended for smaller booksellers. But because most booksellers implemented level 2, they scrapped the simplified level 1 completely.4: ONIX is currently in version 3.0, which has brought more focus to digital publishing. It is, of course, not backwards-compatible and plenty of publishers and booksellers are still using earlier versions.5: BIC = Book Industry Communications, BISG = Book Industry Study Group
-As you can see, it’s not just Internet booksellers like B&N and Amazon that use ONIX. Publishers themselves have been creating the metadata for their products and giving it to not only booksellers, but libraries too. That means your library, whatever kind of library it is, is likely to receive ONIX-based metadata with your books. Which is great! But also not so great, because that means we’ll have to crosswalk it into whatever schema your library is using (which is likely to be MARC). But then again, the book is also likely to already have a record in OCLC, so maybe you won’t have to worry too much about crosswalking it. I can say, after studying ONIX, that I hope I find these records in OCLC because ONIX is kind of complicated.-You can check a list on EDItEUR’s website that has the institutions and companies sending and/or receiving ONIX metadata, but generally only the largest publishers can afford the staffing needed to manage their own metadata, while smaller publishers use companies like NetRead and Firebrand Technologies to manage and transmit their metadata.
1: So, the syntax used for an ONIX record is XML. In its earlier versions, there was one official schema for ONIX and it was a DTD.2: Metadata includes not only title, author, and ISBN but availability, pricing, publisher name, reviews, blurbs, territorial rights, and jacket images and can include much more.3: The elements within those 26 groups relate to the product record.
-Pulled from the contents of the ONIX Format Specifications document.
What this means is that all of the data about the actual product has to be carried on the ONIX tags.
-My minimum-level record.-There are some other intricacies dealing with XML that would be included but I have little experience with it and finding actual ONIX records online is pretty difficult (found a lot of 404s, unfortunately), so I did what I could, XML-wise, with the documents I was able to find.-The “Message” area that is empty aside from declaring which version of ONIX I’m using would typically house sender information like Sender Name, Contact Name, E-mail Address, Sent Date/Time, Message Note, etc.-As you can see the “ProductIDType” element (and others), ONIX does have some fixed semantic requirements. In their 154-page long Format Specifications pdf document, which can be downloaded in conjunction with some other files as a zip from their website, they’ll tell you when a particular element can have free text or if it needs one of these short codes. They link to a list explaining the codes for that element, so that you can choose the appropriate one. The “fixed” elements are typically required in conjunction with a free-text element (see <Contributor> fields).
-Composite is a group of data elements.-It’s interesting that ONIX has two semantic sets—reference and short—that mean the same thing. I’m not sure if this is common, but I certainly prefer the “reference” to “short” because I can read and understand “Price Type” whereas I’d have to look up “x462” (and every other short tag) in order to understand an ONIX record.
-Ahhhh, the joys of folksonomies!-The e-book I used in my minimum-level example was the newest Stephen King release. One of the things I noticed when looking at different websites selling the e-book was the numerous complaints that the e-book was just too expensive. The Kindle price is $12.99, for the record, and Amazon posted just under the discount from the print edition the italicized note, “This price was set by the publisher.”