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The Canadian Bibliographic Standard contains essential information on bibliographic data elements and clarifications to help you understand what's required when.
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Best Practices and BISG
BNC's sister organization in the United States is the Book Industry Study Group (BISG). Both organizations actively try to coordinate their certification and standards programs with each other. This coordination has led to the wide US acceptance of BNC's Bronze Template spreadsheet as a basis for data exchange.
The BISG, in conjunction with BookNet Canada, created a very useful document called Product Metadata Best Practices. Within this guide, you'll find detailed guidelines for each data element in the Canadian Bibliographic Standard.
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International Best Practices at Editeur
Editeur is the organizing body behind the ONIX standard has an excellent best practices document intended to support international exchange . While it is specific to ONIX 3.0 mosts sections can be easily applied to ONIX 2.1.
On the Editeur website click mainpage click on Standards, then Release 3.0 Downloads then, Best Practice Guidelines.
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Canadian Bibliographic Standard Levels
The Canadian Bibliographic Standard has three levels: Bronze, Silver and Gold. These levels correspond to the three Certification levels that can be attained.
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