There was talk of an aggregation service, and Bowker seems to run one,
as does a site called BNC Biblioshare (http://www.biblioshare.org/). I
don't think that the publishers charge for their data, but both of
those sites seem to want to keep control over who gets it, at least by
requiring passwords. If having more feeds of the type at the Internet
Archive would be useful, I think it would be worth suggesting that and
maybe forming a partnership around the idea. I believe that the feeds
for most large publishers are automated at this point.
kc
Quoting Cory Rockliff <rockliff_at_BGC.BARD.EDU>:
> There isn't any one (preferably free) centralized source for ONIX
> data, then, is there? Will individual publishers make their "vendor"
> data services available to individual libraries if asked?
>
> C
>
> On 12/22/10 9:37 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
>> 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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