Re: our profession's bibliographic information

Here are two links that will get you to a bunch of ONIX data. A search  
should pull up other publishers:

http://www.archive.org/details/onix_harpercollins
http://www.archive.org/details/onix_thomasnelson

kc

Quoting Ted Koppel <tpk_at_AUTO-GRAPHICS.COM>:

> 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
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [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.
>
> --
> Eric Morgan
> University of Notre Dame
>
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