1. Albulena Bruncaj
LIS 882 Metadata for Internet Resources
ONIX

2. ONlineInformation eXchange
3. Meeting organized by AAP in July 1999.
ONIX, both name and concept, originated there.
There were originally 2 levels
ONIX 3.0
EDItEUR, BIC, and BISG are collaboratively responsible for the maintenance of ONIX.
ONIX A History
4. Ive never heard of ONIX before! Who uses it?
5. Im glad you asked!
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12. An ONIX Primer
13. ONIX is XML-based.
Over 200 data elements and composite elements.
Organized into 6 blocks and further into 26 groups
An introduction to ONIX
14. ONIXs 6 Blocks and 26 groups
15. Product Description
Marketing Collateral Detail
Content Detail
Publishing Detail
Related Material
Product Supply
The 6 Blocks
16. The view which has been taken in the development of ONIX is that it is undesirable to use XML attributes to carry portions of the actual data content of the ONIX message. However, it is appropriate to use them to carry information which qualifies the data itself and its representation metadata about metadata, as it were.
17. Minimum
ISBN:
TITLE:
AUTHOR:
PAGES:
PUBLISHER:
BINDING:
LISTPRICE:
PUBDATE:
ISBN:
TITLE:
AUTHOR:
PHOTOGRAPHER:
ILLUSTRATOR:
EDITOR:
TRANSLATOR:
SUBJECT:
EDITION:
VOLUME:
PAGES:
DISCOUNT:
PUBLISHER:
BINDING:
LISTPRICE:
PUBDATE:
DISTRIBUTOR:
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21. ONIX aint perfect
22. Consistency among ONIX records used to be far easier because most records were for physical materials.
With the advent of the Apple app store and technologies like the iPad and Kindle, different data is now needed. A single book or album or movie can have several different prices, based on the format.
This complicates an already long and complex schema.
You want how much for that?!
23. You want how much for that?!
24. Onix is long, complicated, and unwieldy for small companies and institutions.
Using ONIX
25. Amazon.com help: Blank forms. Retrieved from http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_left_sib?ie=UTF8&nodeId=13685661
BookNet Canada. ONIX 3.0. Retrieved from http://www.booknetcanada.ca/index.php?option=com_wordpress&p=965&Itemid=319
Calvin, R. (2010, July 5). Accurate metadata sells books. PW review annex. Retrieved from Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text database.
EDItEUR. ONIX: Release 3.0 downloads. Retrieved from http://www.editeur.org/93/Release-3.0-Downloads/
MIT Libraries. Metadata reference guide: ONIX ONline Information eXchange. Retrieved from http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/metadata/standards/onix.html
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