ONIX 3.0 Raises Standard for Ebook Metadata
Why book publishers should migrate to ONIX 3.0 standards to better manage their digital offerings
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It looks challenging, but it isn't really intended for human consumption. The XML message is for machine-to-machine communication and includes a structured set of data elements for the identification and description of books and ebooks as products -- elements like and shown in the extract above. (It's important to understand that ONIX is a means of communication, not a database. Certainly it has implications for the way that publishers and retailers store and manage their product information, but it doesn't specify the database structure they should use. In general, linking your database or application design too closely to a particular standard should be avoided.)
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