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Changelog
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Introduction
To meet the customers demands for more metadata, we are releasing some changes at the end of 2024 / start of 2025. Note: Some of those are also breaking changes. Check the time-schedule.
⚠️ We need your feedback by 20 October 2024 on when changes marked "critical change" can be handled.
If we do not receive feedback, this is interpreted as the changes being handled by you, and we follow the set schedule.
General note about compatibility
All changes are compatible with Onix 3.0 (covered by existing schema), and should therefore not break anything. We expect that customers will always handle that more and more fields are populated (as long as they are in the schema.
Schedule / Status
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Contributor Unnamed Persons
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Contributor Unnamed Persons
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Subject
| September 2024 |
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EUDR, FSC, PEFC, carbon emission
| Q4 2024Q2 2025 |
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EUDR, FSC, PEFC, carbon emission
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Contributor Role Code
| November 2024 |
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Contributor Role Code
| November 2024 |
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Chapters in audio/text books
| October 2024 |
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Device support
| Q4 2024 ⚠️ End-of-life for old syntax |
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Device support
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In stage from ⚠️ Breaking change |
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Collection (publisher)
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Collection (publisher)
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Price condition
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Price condition
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Text and data mining
| October 2024 |
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Onix 3.1 | Q4 2024 |
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Features / changes
Contributor
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Unnamed Persons
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Breaking Change
Only for export
Unnamed Persons allows positive indication of content generated by AI or where synthesised voices are used for audio content.
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Unnamed Persons will be supported both for metadata to and from Bokbasen.
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Unnamed Persons uses codes from List 19, combined with the element ContributorRole and codes from list 17. Supported codes will be: 02 Anonymous (real person) |
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Subject
The Subject element contains classification from several different schemes.
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Terms from proprietary vocabularies and NTSF will be included in records from Bokbasen in parallell to facilitate this transitio
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The Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form is identified by code C8 from list 27 in Subject Scheme Identifier. Terms from the proprietary vocabularies was sent in Subject like this: <Subject> |
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<Subject> <Subject> |
EUDR, FSC, PEFC, carbon emission
ProductFormFeature and ProductFormFeatureType is used to indicate if a product is in compliance with EU deforestation regulations (EUDR), is FSC or PEFC certified, or information about a carbon emission scheme.
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Due Diligence Statement <ProductFormFeature> Provenance of raw material for cover Example shows single GPS coordinate (latitude and longitude), denoting the centre of a 4Ha plot of land where the trees grew. <ProductFormFeature> Provenance of raw material for body Three or more GPS coordinates denotes a polygon outlining the forest where the trees grew. <ProductFormFeature> |
Contributor Role Code
Contributor role code is used to indicate the role played by a person or a corporate body in the creation of the product.
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A15 | Preface by |
A19 | Afterword by |
A23 | Foreword by |
A36 | Cover design or artwork by (children’s literature only) |
A42 | Continued by |
A43 | Interviewer |
A44 | Interviewee |
B34 | Sensitivity reader / editor |
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Chapters in audio
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and ebooks
To facilitate navigation in apps for audio books, support for we will add metadata describing chapters in audio books will be added to Onix records from BokbasenOnix records. We will also supply chapters for ebooks. We will start to support manual chapters, and then work with automatic chapters that publishers then need to approve.
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Support for block 3 will be added. AVItem in ContentDetail will contain information about chapter numbers and start time for each chapter. LevelSequenceNumber indicated logical numbering, and will not necessarily contain the same number as the chapter number. AVItemType includes codes from list 240, identifying if the part is front, body or end matter. TimeRun will indicate start time for each chapter. Format for StartTime/AVDuration is “HHHMMss“. If you want to supply a title, use TitleDetail. TitleType (list 15) should be 01. TitleElementLevel (list 149) should be 04. Adding support for other subfields will be concideredconsidered. |
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<ContentDetail> |
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<ContentDetail> |
Device support
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Breaking Change
Export:
Will only give the new format
Import:
We will still support the old syntax until given date
We will move away from using ProductFormDescription.
It will now be present as ProductFormFeatureDescription (code 07 from list 79). to allow the indication of multiple devices supported.
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<ProductFormFeature> |
Price condition
Price condition is used to indicate when the subscription of a product is automatically renewed. Typically used for digital learning resources.
The duration of the license period is specified in PriceConditionQuantity/EpubConstraint?.
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Code 12 from list 167 is used in PriceConditionType to indicate that the rental or subscription will automatically renewed at the end of the period unless actively cancelled. |
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Collection (Norw. forlagsserie)
CollectionType is used to indicate what type of collection is described in the metadata.
Support for code 11 for identifiyng identifying publisher’s collections will be added.
Publisher’s collections are bibliograhpic bibliographic collections defined and identified by a publisher, often used for marketing purposes, and often with a distinct design style. The books in the collection does not necessarily have a specific order, shared subject or autorshipauthorship.
Collections where the books in the collection have a shared subject, narrative or authorship, are identified by collection type 10. This collection type is independent of the publisher, and will be added as matadata metadata to all editions of a book.
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Collection Type 11 (publisher’s collection) <Collection> Collection Type 10, with part number element <Collection> |
Text and data mining
In all Bokbasen’s customer contracts, use of the product for extraction or automated computer analaysis is regulated and forbidden.
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EpubUsageType will include information indicating that use of the content of the product by artificial intelligence systems is forbidden. Usage type 11 is used in combination with code 03 in EpubUsageStatus, to state that text and data mining is prohibited. |
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Onix 3.1
In February 2023 the Onix Steering Committee agreed that in addition to adding new features to Onix, various data elements that were deprecated, plus the <Gender> tag were to be removed. This necessitated the labelling of the revision as release 3.1.
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