BISG releases report on book and ebook metadata
Assesses and provides recommendations for best practices
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Brian Howard
What do you call a study about metadata? Metametadata? Metadatadata?
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) calls it “Development, Use and Modification of Book Product Metadata,” its brand new publication prepared by Brian O’Leary of Magellan Media Consulting and done in conjunction with BookNet Canada.
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