Eric,
First off, go to the Editeur web site, specifically looking at ONIX for
Books. Grab the 3.0 documentation ZIP file.
http://www.editeur.org/93/Release-3.0-Downloads/#Documentation - It has
three PDFs enclosed.
Remember that ONIX was developed by and for the publishing industry, so
most(all) of the data elements are publisher produced.
The Data_Elements.PDF is pretty much a brief schema. The real meat is
in the Format_specification document.
In particular, the following data elements might be of interest:
P11.5 Illustrations yes/no
P11.6 Number of illustrations
P15.2 and P15.3 Cited content - what media has cited this item
P15.5 Bestseller lists item has appeared on
P15.6 Highest rank of bestseller list
P.17 (entire section) - what prizes title has been awarded, and when
P18.6-P18.8 Page run for textual material
There are lots of other goodies as well.
Ted
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[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 2:16 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] our profession's bibliographic information
On Dec 21, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Ted Koppel wrote:
> Is a long book a better book?
A longer book is not necessarily, but the length of a book (or just
about any other bibliographic item) is directly related to the amount of
time a person can spend "consuming" it. Length is directly related other
expenses a person needs to spend in order to use the item effectively.
> Why not look at (and adapt) the ONIX Specification P.11, P.15, and
P.17 data constructs, that deal with quantitative measures like the
number of illustrations, the number of prizes awarded, etc., to a title.
'Sounds like a good idea to me! Tell us more.
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Eric Morgan
University of Notre Dame
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