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The experience of companies who have done the development to make a transition from 2.1 to 3.0 report that it's easier to do than they expected but it's sad and undeniable fact that many print publishers and retailers in North America have not made the transition yet. This means that anyone starting out has to at least consider supporting both ONIX 2.1 and 3.0.
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Amazon's 3.0 request
Amazon has requested that all physical book ONIX feeds be submitted in ONIX 3.0 by December 31, 2020. No deadline has been specified for digital ONIX but it is already dominated by ONIX 3.0 and the expectation is that it will follow shortly thereafter. This request applies global. Watch for more announcements from other retailers and companies supplying data.
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ONIX 2.1 is no longer a supported standard
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If you need help, contact biblio@booknetcanada.ca.
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ONIX is currently defined as: ONIX 3.0.7
Changes for ONIX 3.0.7.pdf October 31, 2019 adds a new
- This is an addition of a new Block 7 Promotional details and it has new tags assigned as P.27
- It's placement in the ONIX tree is between Block 2 (Marketing & collateral) and before Block 3 (Content)
- The placement is logical as it's about book promotion and comes after marketing & collateral but there's no easy way to avoid it be out of numerical order as a block or P number.
- As expected the Block PromotionDetail cannot repeat (only Block 6 Product supply can repeat to allow for multiple market support) but it contains the PromotionalEvent composite that can repeat.
- This "Events" section is specifically about promotional events – book signings, author tours, media appearance – and transmitting information in advance of the event (The Block 1 P.8 Event section is for books about Events or Conferences)
- The Promotional Event composite can repeat for different events and each event has to have at least one composite but can contain multiple dates in an Event Occurrence section. The above documentation and the ONIX manual provide a full explanation.
Changes for ONIX 3.0.6 April 24, 2019 This is an exceptionally small revision that added the following two
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Current North American metadata Is defined By:
Version 3.0.6 7 -- Revision 6Revision 7
ONIX Code List 46 47 ONIX_BookProduct_Codelists_Issue_4647_Changes.pdf
Version 2.1.3 – Revision 3 (Revision 4 is largely about changes for Japan)
ONIX Code List Issue 36 is the last code list that should be used for ONIX 2.1
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