BISG WEBCAST -- ONIX for Books 3.0: An Introduction

Everything you need to know about the new ONIX for Books

Important Note: No sessions of this seminar are currently scheduled. If you are interested in attending future sessions of this seminar, please contact Angela Bole at angela@bisg.org

In April 2009, EDItEUR announced the release of a major new version of the ONIX for Books standard: ONIX 3.0. This release of ONIX is the first since 2001 that is not backwards-compatible with its predecessors and, more importantly, provides a means for improved handling of digital products.

During this 60-minute presentation, Mark Bide, Executive Director of EDItEUR, and David Martin, from EDItEUR’s ONIX Support Team, will answer four key questions about ONIX for Books 3.0:

1) Why did the book industry need a new ONIX release?
2) How does ONIX 3.0 provide new support for digital publishing?
3) What are other important benefits of ONIX 3.0?
4) How should publishers and other ONIX users respond to the new release?

About the Presenters

Mark Bide, Executive Director, EDItEUR

Mark Bide is Executive Director of EDItEUR, the global trade standards organization for the book and serial publishing industries. He is also the Project Director for the ACAP Project, and a Director of Rightscom, the specialist media consultancy.

Since the early 1990s, Mark has been closely involved in media standardization strategies and in the design and management of standards for identification and metadata in the media. He has worked in and around the publishing industry for nearly 40 years, having been a Director of the European subsidiaries of both CBS Publishing and John Wiley & Sons. He is a Visiting Professor of the University of the Arts London.

David Martin, ONIX Support Team, EDItEUR

David Martin is an independent consultant on standards for business communication in the book trade, working principally for EDItEUR, where he leads the team responsible for ONIX for Books.

David has been involved with metadata standards for most of his career, at INSPEC, at the British Library, where he was Director of Automated Services for six years, and as a founder Director of Book Data Ltd (now part of Nielsen BookData).