Patricia Payton delivers an outstanding follow up guest blog to her educational standards webinar. Learn which four components are key in educational metadata.
ONIX 2.1 to 3.0: Markets and Supply
ONIX 2.1 to 3.0: Sales Rights
ONIX 3.0: Schema getting stricter
How and why to use BISG's Educational Taxonomy
ONIX 2.1 to 3.0: Collections
ONIX 2.1 to 3.0: Helping you make the transition
This is the first in a series exploring the differences between ONIX 2.1 and 3.0, and how to navigate your metadata through the transition.
In this first installment, Data Guru Tom Richardson explains why and how data traders ought to adopt ONIX 3.0, and gives an overview of the topics he’ll be covering this summer.
The Unseen Hand of Metadata
BNC metadata guru Tom Richardson looks back on how his book-buying habits have changed in the past year, and how the unseen hand of metadata may be at work…
This is the first year I can really see changes in my personal book-buying habits. Like many others, I’ve found that I’m buying books more often again. This has a lot to do with the convenience and direct nature of buying ebooks. (Feeling down at midnight no longer requires scavenging closets for books.) But I’m also buying print more and often based on its object-value; I like a well-made book, with diagrams and illustrations, and not too many photos. But why the change?
