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ONIX For Books: Developed and maintained by EDItEUR jointly with Book Industry Communication (UK) and the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (US), and with user groups in Australia, Canada, France, Germany and the Republic of Korea.

ONIX is the international standard for representing and communicating book industry product information in electronic form, incorporating the core content which has been specified in national initiatives such as BIC Basic and AAP's ONIX Version 1.

Latest Release: Release 2.1 (Revision 02 and 03)

Latest General Release: Release 2.1 (Revision 02)

For users in most countries, the current release is Release 2.1 revision 02, published in 2004, with some minor revisions to documentation in February 2005.

NEW USERS IN THE U.S. SHOULD GO STRAIGHT TO Release 2.1 revision 02.

Special supplementary release: Release 2.1 (Revision 03)

To meet the short-term needs of ONIX implementations in Australia and Spain, ahead of any new general Release, a further minor revision, 03, has been completed in January 2006, and can be downloaded from a separate page. All other users are recommended to continue to work with Release 2.1 revision 02. However, even if you are staying with Revision 02, you may wish to download the Revision 03 documentation package, which includes some more general improvements. Within the documentation, new elements that are applicable only to Revision 03 are clearly marked as such.

Other ONIX information:
Release 1.1 sample records
ONIX / MARC mappings

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ONIX standards are maintained by EDItEUR under the direction of an international steering group. US implementation and input to the international steering group are coordinated through a committee of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG). UK implementation and input to the international steering group are coordinated through the BIC Product Metadata Committee.

If you have comments, questions or suggestions for improvements to ONIX Product Information, please send them to one of the following contacts:

For the USA, Angela Bole, BISG, email angela@bisg.org

For the UK and all other countries, Brian Green, EDItEUR, email brian@bic.org.uk

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