ONIX to support digital products (i.e., ebooks)

From the Book Industry Study Group Bulletin, April 2008 - released today.
http://www.bisg.org


ONIX FOR BOOKS GOES DIGITAL 
ONIX for Books version 3.0 is coming later this year 
and the good news is that it will handle digital  
publications much more effectively than previous  
versions. 
 

At a meeting held at the London Book Fair earlier 
this month, the ONIX for Books International Steer?
ing Committee approved plans for a new release of 
ONIX for Books, Release 3.0, to be published in Sep?
tember 2008.  The new release has three main goals. 
First, it will improve the ways ONIX handles digital 
products, along lines determined by a research study 
completed in March this year.  Second, it will remove 
data elements that have been deprecated in ONIX 
2.1, and finally it will add new functionality that has 
been requested by users in various countries. 
Because of the removal of deprecated elements, the 
new release will not be fully backwards-compatible, 
and for this reason it has to be regarded as a major 
release.   However,  the  intention  is  that,  as far  as 
possible,  new  functionality  will  be  added  in  ways 
which do not change existing structures.  Apart from 
the removal of deprecated elements, many - if not 
most - data element groups will remain backwards-compatible.

The detailed specification of the new release will be
finalized in June.  Between now and Friday May 23, 
there is an opportunity for national groups and users 
in general to put forward any further requests for 
new  functionality.    Anyone  with  requests  should 
send them to Michael Healy at the BISG office (email 
Michael-xAHIewsI/[email protected])  and  they  will  be  considered  by 
the BISAC Metadata Committee 
ONIX  for  Books  2.1,  revisions  02  and  03,  will  of 
course continue to be supported after the publica?
tion of Release 3.0.  However, it is the intention of 
the  International  Steering  Committee  that  in  due 
course a "sunset date" will be agreed for these and 
all earlier releases, so that the ONIX community can 
standardize on a single version. 
 
 
The Onix website is at:

http://www.editeur.org/onix.html


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