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Contributor Locations
CataList is beginning to pull in new data points that are available in the publisher ONIX 3.0 data files, as adoption of ONIX 3.0 increases.
One of the most interesting new data points available is the data contained in the <ContributorPlace> composite, which allow publishers to indicate not just the contributor's nationality, but also the region (meaning the province in Canada) as well as city or town.
When CataList has access to this data from publishers, we now display it to signed-in users of CataList, in the Author Bio section of the title detail page!
When searching in CataList, you can also drill down to the province level to locate authors more local to your store or library. When the Contributor Location refine box displays as an option in the left sidebar of the Search Results page, that means CataList has location data available for at least some of the titles in your search result set. As ONIX 3.0 adoption ramps up, this data will be populated more consistently. If you find it to be useful data, let your reps and publisher contacts know that this data point is important to you!
How to supply Contributor Locations in ONIX 3.0
After support for ONIX 2.1 ended back in December 2014, adoption of the updated ONIX 3.0 standard underwent a very slow ramp up in North America. But as business needs for new fields to better support digital books and other key content, it's beginning to be adopted at a quicker pace. The <ContributorPlace> elements are only supported in ONIX 3.0. If you need more general information on the ONIX 3.0 standard, or have questions about how to upgrade, check out BookNet Canada's Collected resources on the transition from ONIX 2.1 to ONIX 3.0.
For the <ContributorPlace> composite, it is an optional and repeatable composite inside the <Contributor> composite.
In the image above, you can see a simplified <Contributor> composite where we can see the first contributor's role and names, followed by two instances of the <ContributorPlace>. <ContributorPlace> is an optional and repeatable composite, used for expressing different information about locations and how your book's contributor(s) relate to each place. These relationships are indicated using the place relator codes from code list 151.
In this example, the first data point provided is a country code 'CA' using place relator '08' - meaning "citizen of". This structure indicates that this author is a Canadian citizen, and this is the accepted method of indicating Canadian authors in ONIX 3.0.
If you know more about the author's relationship to specific provinces, towns or cities, you can add additonal repeats of the <ContributorPlace> to express those releationships. For CataList's purposes, we are specifically pulling the data point that indicate a contributor's current residence (place relator code '04') or where they flourished (code '07') in the case of a deceased person.
If you know more place relationships for your contributors, feel free to add composite repeats as needed to detail all of the connections!
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In this release, we’ve added new search features to help you find accessible digital products, such as ebooks, in CataList. You can also filter your search results to return titles with the specific accessibility features that meet your needs or preferences.
In the Advanced Search form, use the new “Accessible products” checkbox to search for titles that include accessibility details.
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Publishers: Accessibility details can be provided in your ONIX 2.1 and 3.0 files using the code type ‘09’ in <ProductFormFeatureType>, and supplying in <ProductFormFeatureValue> the applicable accessibility features using code values in List 196: E-publication Accessibility Details. |
If your search results include any titles that provide accessibility details, you will see the Accessibility filter display in the left sidebar. You can expand the Accessibility filter by clicking the + symbol to see the types of accessibility data available.
The accessibility data points are grouped into categories for your convenience.
Accessibility features - The majority of specific features for accessible experience will be listed in this category.
Compliance and certification - If you are looking for products that have passed specific certification, you can see more detailed compliance details in this section.
Limited accessibility - If you have selected the accessible products search checkbox in the advanced search form, titles with limited or unknown accessibility data will be excluded from your search results. However, if you are doing more general searching, you can select this category to see publisher-supplied details of accessibility limitations.
Contacts for more information - You can limit your results to titles where there are additional contacts for further accessibility information. This might be a publisher or product website, or an email address where you can request more information.
Select one or more checkboxes to expand the categories and view further options to refine your search.
You can limit your results to titles that contain the specific accessibility features that you’re looking for by clicking one or more of the resulting checkboxes.
If you select options from more than one category, you will see the results from both categories combined in your search results.
Latest features added on December 12, 2023
Check this space often to find out more about the changes and new features added to BNC CataList.
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