Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2012
BISG Releases Report on Book and Ebook Metadata
What do you call a study about metadata? Metametadata? Metadatadata?
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) calls it "Development, Use and Modification of Book Product Metadata," its brand new publication prepared by Brian O'Leary of Magellan Media Consulting and done in conjunction with BookNet Canada.
As O'Leary hinted at during BISG's Making Information Pay event in the spring, metadata in publishing is a mess, with some 95% or publishers reporting changes to the metadata they send out into the supply chain.
The 37-page report assesses why this is so (essentially an ever complicated web of middlemen like distributors, aggregators and content converters, as well as vast differences in the practices of large, medium and small publishers) and provides 10 recommendations publishers, retailers and other players (like metadata management vendors and services) can improve their processes and "future proof" metadata in the supply chain.
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The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) calls it "Development, Use and Modification of Book Product Metadata," its brand new publication prepared by Brian O'Leary of Magellan Media Consulting and done in conjunction with BookNet Canada.
As O'Leary hinted at during BISG's Making Information Pay event in the spring, metadata in publishing is a mess, with some 95% or publishers reporting changes to the metadata they send out into the supply chain.
The 37-page report assesses why this is so (essentially an ever complicated web of middlemen like distributors, aggregators and content converters, as well as vast differences in the practices of large, medium and small publishers) and provides 10 recommendations publishers, retailers and other players (like metadata management vendors and services) can improve their processes and "future proof" metadata in the supply chain.
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