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  • Click the New Title button in the Manage Titles screen to access the Entry Form.
  • First things first : enter your title's ISBN 13.
  • Webform will automatically check to see if metadata for that ISBN already exists in our BiblioShare database, and will fill in the form with that data. It's like magic!
  • A cover image will also be pulled into Webform if it already exists in BiblioShare.
  • Whether you're pulling data from BiblioShare or manually entering it, make sure to fill in all fields that are marked with an asterisk (*). These fields are required for schema validation.
  • Click Save to save your edits and return to the Manage Titles screen, or click Save & New to save your edits and go to a new Entry Form.
  • The new title will be added to your catalogue on the Manage Titles screen.

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Importing a Title from an ONIX file

  • Select Import an ONIX file from the Actions drop-down menu in the Manage Titles screen.
  • In the resulting pop-up window, click Upload an ONIX file to search for an ONIX file on your computer.
  • Double-click the ONIX file to start the import.
  • When the "File imported successfully" message appears, close the pop-up window.
  • The titles in your ONIX file have now been added to your catalogue. You can view these titles on the Manage Titles screen.
  • If titles in your ONIX file are already in your catalogue, Webform will update those titles with the information from the imported ONIX file.
  • Tip: You can add multiple titles by importing an ONIX file with multiples multiple titles in it.

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Importing a Title from BiblioShare

  • See Creating a Title using Webform.
  • As long as you have access to BiblioShare, the Webform will automatically import an ISBN's data from BiblioShare when you try adding a new record.
  • There is unfortunately no way to import more than one title at a time from BiblioShare. This restriction has been put in place out of kindness to our hard-working server.

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Adding Cover, Author, and Interior Images

From the Entry Form for a title, click Add image to choose the type of image you want to upload:

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. You can click the square to open the files window or drag and drop the file into the square; alternatively, you can choose to add a URL in the available space. The system will fetch the image into Webform.

Front Cover

    • Only one cover image can be uploaded.
    • If a second cover image is uploaded, it will replace the first one.

Contributor (

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a.k.a. Author Photo)

    • Select the contributor with whom you want to associate this image with.
    • Add the file to the window and it will be associated with your selected contributor.
    • If no contributor has been added to the record yet, then you will not be able to add an image.

Interior

    • Multiple interior images can be added one after the other; there is no limit to the number of images.

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