Educational Webinars

In September 2021, BISG began hosting educational webinars on topics centered around the work of three of our five committees. The rights committee and metadata committee sessions focus specifically on those topics. The workflow committee began with topics specific to the creation of EPUB files, with plans for more topics in the future. This page will be updated with new programming, when available. Visit our main webinars page for all other webinars.

Rights Education Series

• Why I Care About Rights (featuring Richard Charkin)
• How do Rights Work? Let's Make a Deal (featuring Clare Hodder)
• How do we talk about rights? (featuring Tricia McCraney)
• How do we manage rights? (featuring Reitha Pattison)
• The Rights Ecosystem: Publishing Rights from Start to Finish (featuring Paul Gore)
• What do you need to know about acquiring permissions?  (featuring Jeffrey Corrick)
• BISG Rights Committee Program: The Evolving Landscape for Rights Tools and Models (featuring Willem Bisseling, Lara Allen, Nina Sabak and Scott Hoffman)
• Copyright 101 (featuring Cheryl Davis)

Metadata Education Series

• Metadata Basics 101
• Metadata Basics 102: ONIX
• Metadata 103: Internationalizing Your Metadata
• Collateral Texts in Metadata
• Updating Your Metadata After Publication
• How to Effectively Describe Series/Collections in Your Metadata
• Block Updates in ONIX
• Works in ONIX
• Thema for the U.S. Market: What Publishers & Others Should Know

Workflow Education Series

• Keeping up with EPUB Standards: Preserving Access for Backlist Content
• Indexing Confidential: A conversation about how indexing can make better books
• Does my EPUB meet industry expectations?
• Introduction to Alt Text and Extended Description for Book Publishing
• Creating EPUBs: All about page numbering
• Creating EPUBs: Multimedia Embedding
• Creating EPUBs: Design meets function - Hanging indents, poetry and other layouts