Posted Thursday, January 12, 2012
BISG Explains Digital Books Policy Statement in Webcast
"BISG held a webcast January 11 designed to help clarify meaning and expectations regarding the BISG Policy Statement published December 7 on best practices for identifying digital products. The webcast featured Angela Bole, deputy executive director for BISG, and Phil Madans, director of publishing standards and practices at Hachette.
After a brief background on ISBN's last few years (including the revision of the ISBN standard's language), Madans laid out publisher responsibility, which is that they assign, maintain, and disseminate accurate metadata for all digital books released into the supply chain, as well as third party responsibility, which is to update the original metadata and disseminate accurate metadata, to ensure the link to the publisher-provided ISBN is maintained..."
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After a brief background on ISBN's last few years (including the revision of the ISBN standard's language), Madans laid out publisher responsibility, which is that they assign, maintain, and disseminate accurate metadata for all digital books released into the supply chain, as well as third party responsibility, which is to update the original metadata and disseminate accurate metadata, to ensure the link to the publisher-provided ISBN is maintained..."
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