The ONIX standards for metadata are XML-based standards intended to facilitate the transfer of bibliographic and production information along the book and e-book production and supply chains. Its origin and development were originally intended to organize and standardize supply chain metadata for the publishing industry, but libraries soon found many benefits to its use, and now several methods of incorporating ONIX data into library catalogs exist. This paper focuses on ONIX for Books, which includes the standards for both printed and electronic books. According to EDItEUR, the organization responsible for the development and maintenance of ONIX standards, “ONIX is founded partly on principles developed within the project and upon the EPICS data dictionary, but is firmly rooted in real-world use cases and the practices of book supply chains in many countries.” (Best Practices, 2014.)
ONIX for Books v 1.0, was first published in 2000, with updates following rapidly. Release 2.0 was published in 2001 and 2.1 in 2003, followed by several revisions. The last new version was Release 3.0, released in April 2009, but after three years of availability, many US publishers had yet to adopt the newest upgrade because while the 2.0 versions of the standard were backwardly compatible with all previous versions, Release 3.0 is not. This compatibility was both blessing and curse; while it meant that publishers could more easily update their practices as new revisions to the standard were released, the improved and increased capabilities of later releases introduced conflicts with earlier versions. Release 3.0 was developed to solve problems that arose with earlier versions of the ONIX standard, but the publishing industry was initi...
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