This is the second part of a series. The first part can be found at https://booknetcanada.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UserDocs/pages/1259733139/How+do+you+best+represent+the+names+of+your+publisher+and+imprint+in+your+metadata?. The third part can be found at https://booknetcanada.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/UserDocs/pages/1259962559/Imprint+and+publisher+name%3A+Opportunities+in+ONIX.
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We don't like to drop terms in publishing, but we do love to take old terms and re-purpose them. Almost all book metadata includes both Imprint Name and Publisher Name so, just like how Publication Date can mean almost any date in some circumstance because it's the only date that's always available, so too Imprint and Publisher can be... well... multifaceted? Here are some ways Publisher Name and Imprint Name interact.
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Next week in our third and final instalment in this series, we'll look at the solution ONIX offers and how partial implementation of the ONIX standard perpetuates complication in the Publisher and Imprint Name game.
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This originally appeared on the BNC Blog at https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2019/1/10/imprint-and-publisher-name-some-case-studies. Subscribe the the blog RSS at https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog?format=rss.