Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow - Judy Luther

With the amount of digital book content growing rapidly and the number of formats multiplying, the metadata required to support the discovery, sale, and use of content by a global audience is increasing exponentially. [...] Yet the ability to efficiently transmit and correctly display metadata that supports decisions to acquire books has made the underlying structure and exchange of metadata even more important to the success of the publisher supply chain and libraries. [...] The evolution in the use of book metadata and the development of ONIX to distribute it provides a flow from the inception of the work in the publisher’s internal management system to participants in the book supply chain. [...] Increased access to this data for libraries through the use of additional ONIX and MARC crosswalks and the exchange of potentially useful data for both libraries and publishers furthers the dialog from the broader perspective. [...] ISO 2108 specifies the construction of an ISBN, the rules for its assignment and use, the metadata to be associated with the ISBN allocation, and the administration of the ISBN system.