ONIX FAQ
- Tom Richardson
Owned by Tom Richardson
The two primary resources that any ONIX implementer should use are:
Joint BISG / BNC Best Practices for Product Metadata
ONIX for Books: Implementation and Best Practice Guide available as an HTML5 document from www.editeur.org
BNC ONIX FAQ
The purpose of this page is organize some explanations that have been prepared in answer to specific questions. As such it makes no attempt to be systematic but the FAQ question will try to include keywords to the contents of the answer.
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- How do I specify bundles?
- How do I include tax and discount codes?
- What should small start-ups and self-published authors know about discoverability and the supply chain?
- How do Audience, Subject, and Audience Range work together?
- I'm a self-published author or a new start-up publishing company looking to do ONIX metadata...
- What’s an imprint code? How do I use it?
- What is the “Language” composite in ONIX. What is it asking for?
- What’s the difference between Related Product and Edition? How do I use them in ONIX?
- What's a supplier? Isn't Amazon my supplier?
- How do I communicate divestment in ONIX? What are common problems?
- What are the major differences between ONIX 2.1 and 3.0 for digital products?
- Why can't I map ONIX 2.1 to ONIX 3.0?
- "How do I group products in ONIX together using the collection composite?"