BISG releases report on book and ebook metadata
Assesses and provides recommendations for best practices
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Brian Howard
As O’Leary hinted during BISG’s Making Information Pay event in the spring, metadata in publishing is a mess, with some 95% of publishers reporting that the metadata they send out into the supply chain has been changed at some point by the time it reaches a retail outlet. (There are handy charts detailing the many steps in the process where such changes can advertently and inadvertently take place.)
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