Book Metadata & ONIX:
Practical Guidance and Best Practice
Monday, March 04, 20139:30 AM to 5:00 PM
A FULL-DAY TRAINING PROGRAM
(limited to 30 attendees)
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION | COURSE CONTENT | ENDORSEMENTSATTENDEE PROFILE | INSTRUCTOR PROFILE
LOCATION & CONTACT INFO
| March 4, 2013 *ONLY 2 SEATS LEFT!*  CURRENT RSVP LIST BISG Members: $449 Non-Members: $799 | HHHHHHHH | March 5, 2013 CURRENT RSVP LIST BISG Members: $449 Non-Members: $799 |
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Book Metadata & ONIX: Practical Guidance and Best Practice is a full-day training course introducing the business value of accurate metadata and providing a thorough and authoritative, ground-up introduction to ONIX for Books. Among other things, it includes a review of metadata best practices and a deep-dive into some of the trickier parts of the ONIX message. The course covers both ONIX 2.1 and 3.0 and is relevant to both e-books and physical products.The training is being offered on Monday, March 4, 2013 and Tuesday, March 5, 2013 (from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM). The content will be the same each day so please only register for one or the other.
COURSE CONTENT
Prior to the course, BISG will contact trainees to inquire if they have specific areas of concern/interest. While the exact information covered in the training session may be tailored, the overall content will be as follows:
MORNING SESSIONS
What is ONIX?
- Use cases, history, governance, business benefits
- Different versions of ONIX, advantages of 3.0 vs 2.1, available documentation and tools, value of good metadata
- Syntax and semantics, character sets, DTDs, schemas and validation
- High-level structure and the data model, how low‐level structures are created, use of controlled vocabularies (codelists), overview of data elements
- Establishing new feeds, delta and block update strategies, recipient service level agreements
LUNCH
Lunch is provided as part of the attendee registration fee.
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
ONIX Data Elements (In Detail)
- Examples and best practice from throughout the message, with both 2.1 and 3.0 examples -- coverage of record IDs, product IDs, work IDs, series and titles, contributor names, subject classification, descriptive text and other collateral, imprint and publisher, territorial rights, supply details, markets and prices
- Including problems brought along by attendees
ENDORSEMENTS
"The course was tightly focused and well taught. Though I had some experience of ONIX before, the course delivered both a strong structure and lots of practical detail. The knowledge I gained is enabling me to improve the metadata my company delivers to the market."
-- Martin Klopstock, Publishing Services Director, Kogan Page Publishers
"Both my colleague and I found the course a comprehensive and revealing overview of ONIX, and of metadata issues in general, and I have recommended it to other staff within the business."
-- Gabrielle Wallington, Bibliographic Manager, Waterstones
"I found the course invaluable in bridging the gap between library and book trade metadata and have recommended it to many colleagues. Thoroughly recommended!"
-- Neil Wilson, Head of Metadata Services, British Library
"We had representatives from all parts of the Swedish book industry participating in the training; book chains, publishing houses, distributors, system integrators and libraries. And Graham Bell managed to make the abstract and sometimes complex topics clear and easy to understand for all participants. It also brought everyone together on the same page regarding metadata, and was an important step in preparation for moving to ONIX 3.0."
-- Christer Perslov, Managing Director, Bokrondellen
ATTENDEE PROFILE
The training session is suitable both for beginners with no pre-existing knowledge of ONIX, and for those with some practical experience. It is particularly suitable for publishing staff in editorial, marketing, or sales who are responsible for the management and dissemination of product metadata, or for distribution and retail staff struggling to make sense of the metadata that's available. The course is not aimed at software developers (for whom a separate, more technical course would be in order), but is suitable for those that might be responsible for managing those developers.
INSTRUCTOR PROFILE
Graham Bell, Chief Data Architect, EDItEUR
Graham Bell is EDItEUR's Chief Data Architect. He joined EDItEUR in 2010, and he focuses on the continuing development and application of ONIX for Books, and on other EDItEUR metadata standards for the global book, e-book, and serials sectors. Graham previously worked for HarperCollins Publishers in the UK where he was Head of Publishing Systems. He led the development of bibliographic and digital asset management systems, and was involved with the launches of many recent HarperCollins digital initiatives including e-audio, e-books, and print-on-demand programs. Prior to HarperCollins, he worked as an editor and in IT roles within the magazine industry with Redwood Publishing.
LOCATION & CONTACT INFO
Offices of Random House Publishers
1745 Broadway, Dr. Seuss Room
New York, NY 10019
For details email: Angela Bole
Website: http://www.bisg.org
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