BIC's ONIX: Advanced Topics Training Course - April 2025

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Recent research shows that good metadata leads to increased sales*. With that in mind, this advanced course mixes the theoretical discussion of metadata with practical examples and guidance, and links metadata very clearly with supply chain effectiveness and commercial success.

Please note: Some training material on data elements relating to digital products, open access, audio material and chapter-level metadata that was previously part of this course has been transferred to the new ONIX Essentials Plus course. If a delegate completed the ONIX essentials course prior to 2022, some content may have been missed. This missed material may be covered again in this course provided that time allows.

*Nielsen White Paper: The Link Between Metadata and Sales.

Experienced ONIX users will learn how to optimise their metadata and deal with the more complex aspects of ONIX by attending this course.

This course is suitable for delegates with a good background knowledge of publishing and experience working with ONIX. Attendees do not require a technical background, the course is aimed at staff with management responsibility for product metadata or software developers seeking more in-depth domain knowledge. Delegates should previously have attended the BIC ONIX Essentials training course or have gained extensive knowledge and experience of metadata management and ONIX over several years.

The content of this course is modular and will be tailored to the particular interests of delegates; consequently, each course will be different. However, the overall content will most likely include many of the following topics:

1) Modules

• The importance of core semantics;
• Conceptual modelling, WMI entity stack in indecs and interoperability with library metadata models;
• Identifiers; GTINs and ISBNs; ISNI and name identification; ISCCs, work IDs and the product lifecycle;
• Linked data and schema.org optimization of web pages;
• Discoverability, keywords and structured subject coding including Thema;
• Sales rights and restrictions; advanced international pricing and multiple markets, tax, discounts, commodity codes and international trade
• Collections, sets and series
• Chapter-level metadata (for audio, scholarly etc)
• Open access
• Multi-item/multi-component products
• Multilingual metadata
• Promotional events
• Practical XML validation
• Block updating
• ONIX Acknowledgement message
• ONIX 3.0 migration; differences from 2.1, changes and benefits; migration strategy
• ONIX 3.1 migration
• New data elements in recent ONIX revisions (3.0, 3.0.1–3.0.8, 3.1, 3.1.1)
• Underused features and opportunities; common errors
• Summary and further resources

2) Discuss your issues

• Delegates may choose to submit real-world books and metadata of their own for discussion and pointers for improvement (you must contact [email protected] at least one week in advance. It cannot be guaranteed that all issues will be looked at or ‘solved’)

3) Practical Demos (spread throughout the day):

• How to validate ONIX messages
• Why character sets and encodings are important
• Tag name conversion

EDItEUR membership Graham Bell

Executive Director, EDItEUR

Graham is Executive Director of EDItEUR, and is responsible for the overall development of EDItEUR’s standards and the management services it provides on behalf of other standards organisations (ISNI International Agency and the International DOI Foundation). He joined EDItEUR as its Chief Data Architect in 2010, focusing on the continuing development and application of ONIX for Books, Thema, EDItX and on other EDItEUR standards for the global books and serials sectors.

Graham is an experienced trainer and speaker. He previously worked for HarperCollins Publishers in the UK, where most recently he was Head of Publishing Systems.

"Learning about the detailed differences between ONIX 2.1 and 3.0 has provided me with greater understanding and knowledge to assist in my job." - Angela Kendall, Nielsen

"Graham Bell is an excellent teacher making the courses interesting even when the subject matter is not that ‘light’. He provides explanations in a clear and concise way." - Angela Kendall, Nielsen

“I can think of many people in my company who would benefit from attending this course.” - Anon.

Tues 1st, Weds 2nd and Thurs 3rd April 2025 (over 3 half days).

BIC is committed to providing high quality, accessible training for the book industry. We are able to provide both bespoke courses and in-house training to suit your requirements. This course is suitable for in-house training so please do contact us to request further information or to make a booking: [email protected]

Online / Virtual Training.

This is a 1.5 day course which will be delivered in three, half-day training sessions, 1.00pm-5.30pm (UK)on the dates specified, above.

BIC & EDItEUR Members £470 + VAT

Friends of BIC £560 + VAT

Non-Members £640 + VAT

Note: Ticket price excludes the Eventbrite processing fee.

Additional discount available: Please note that any individual who registers, at the same time, to attend both this ONIX: Advanced Topics and either of the ONIX Essentials Plus courses will be eligible to receive a £100 discount on the combined cost of their tickets.

This offer is open to BIC & EDItEUR Members, Friends of BIC and Non-Members. Contact BIC ([email protected]) for further information and to receive your discount code (prior to booking your place); tickets purchased using this discount code will not be transferrable within your organisation. This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other or discount code.

The fully discounted rates apply to BIC and EDItEUR members only.

Check BIC membership and /or EDItEUR membership.

Alternative Payment Option: If you would prefer BIC to invoice your organisation directly, please contact us: [email protected]. Please note that this process will incur a £25.00 administration fee.

Created by the book industry, for the book industry

For an empowered, informed supply chain

Established in 1991, BIC is an independent, not-for-profit organisation at the heart of the book industry. We pride ourselves on working collaboratively with key stakeholders in the UK book industry to produce quality training courses that are created and delivered by expert, highly respected trainers on a wide range of supply chain topics. Being a not-for-profit organisation, BIC is able to offer all of its training at highly competitive rates. If there is a topic that you would like us to provide training on, that we do not provide at present, get in touch; we also welcome enquires about the provision of bespoke in-house courses.

Please note: as we price our training courses so competitively, the running of them is dependent on there being a set minimum number of delegates registered by the time the booking period ceases. For this reason, please be aware that unfortunately some courses may be cancelled if this requirement is not met. Should this happen, BIC will arrange for full refunds for all training courses booked. We will liaise with registered delegates at least 2 weeks prior to each course date regarding this. BIC apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Please take a few moments to familiarise yourself with our refund policy.

Should you need to cancel your ticket, refunds may be given as follows:

• Up to 6 calendar weeks (i.e. 42 calendar days) before the event: full refund minus Eventbrite fee
• Less than 6 calendar weeks, but more than 2 calendar weeks (i.e. 14 days) before the event: 50% refund
• Less than 2 calendar weeks before the event: no refund

If you (or a colleague in your place) do not attend the training course you have booked, no refund will be given.

Please note: Tickets are transferable within your organisation.

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