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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

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What level of familiarity do you have with ONIX?

(any version)

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Richard StarkDirector 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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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?...

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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…

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Presenter Contact Information Richard Stark: bisac_metadata@bisg.org Website: www.bisg.org/committee-2-14-

metadata-committee

BISG Contact Information Angela Bole: angela@bisg.org Website: www.bisg.org