Workflow Resources
The BISG Workflow Committee recommends these resources for their value to book industry professionals. This list is a work in progress and we welcome suggestions; if you have other interests or learning needs that you would like us to consider, let us know! Have a resource you love but don’t see it here? Fill out our suggestion form so we can add it.
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The Workflow Committee has produced content and programming to help educate the industry. You can view all our available content and programming on BISG’s Knowledge Center. Below is a selection of workflow content we'd like to highlight.
Resources coming soon, stay tuned!
These are outside metadata resources curated and recommended by the BISG Workflow Committee.
New to the book industry? Start here with the essentials.
- The Bottom Line by Jane Friedman
Blogs, Websites, and Newsletters
Books
Algorithms of Oppression
Written by Safiya Noble
Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
Written by Aaron Dignan
Developing an Ebook Production Workflow: Challenges and Learning at Talonbooks
Written by Chloe Filson
Lean Mastery Collection
Written by Jeffrey Ries
Project Management for Book Publishers: The Programs and Workflows Behind Making Books and Digital Products
Written by John Rodzvilla
StartWithXML: Making the Case for Applying XML to a Publishing Workflow
Written by Mike Shatzkin, Brian O'Leary, Laura Dawson, and Ted Hill
Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow
Written by Judy Luther
The Classification & Evaluation of Content Management Systems
The Gilbane Report
The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing
Edited by Bill Kasdorf
The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded
Written by Michael D. Watkins
The Intelligence Illusion
Written by Baldur Bjarnason
Workflow Management: models, methods and systems
Written by W Van Der Aalst and KM Van Hee
Podcasts
- BookSmarts Podcast
By Joshua Tallent - CCC's Velocity of Content Podcast
By Chris Kenneally - The Open Book Podcast with David Steinberger
- Techtonic
Reports & Papers
- BIC Bites
- BIC Resource Centre
- EDItEUR’s ONIX code list browser
- EDItEUR’s ONIX Implementation and Best Practice Guide
The latest version is 3.1.2 DOI:10.4400/ejtx as of 6/18/2025 - EDItEUR’s Application Notes
Covers specific ONIX topics including accessibility, AI, audiobooks, block updates, commodity codes (tariff codes), e-books and digital content, identifiers, lifecycle dates, multilingual metadata, pricing, safety requirements, sales rights, weights and dimensions, XML validation, and more.
Webinars & Educational Programming
- BIC's YouTube Channel
- BookNet Canada's Tech Forum
- BookNet Canada's Webinar Archive
- EDItEUR webinar on EUDR (40 mins)
The Book Industry Study Group is compiling answers to a list of frequently asked workflow questions. We expect this comprehensive list will be most useful to those professionals who are new to working with publishing workflows, as well as seasoned veterans who may need a refresher on specific terminology or best practices. If you have a question you’d like to see answered, or if you have an answer you’d like us to consider hosting, please reach out to us here.