“Chapters in audio and ebooks” deployed to test/stage
“Text and data mining” deployed to test/stage
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
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Available from
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Contributor Unnamed Persons
import
Q4 2024
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BlueGreen
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In progressdone
Contributor Unnamed Persons
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In prod from
⚠️ Breaking change
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Blue
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In progressTEST / STAGE
Subject
export
September 2024
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colour
Green
title
done
EUDR, FSC, PEFC, carbon emission
import
Q4 2024Q2 2025
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title
not started
EUDR, FSC, PEFC, carbon emission
export
Q1 Q2 2025
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title
not started
Contributor Role Code
import
November 2024
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colour
Green
title
Not starteddone
Contributor Role Code
export
November 2024
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colour
Green
title
Not starteddone
Chapters in audio/text books
export
October 2024
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colour
Blue
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In progressTEST / STAGE
Device support
import
October
⚠️ End-of-life for old syntax 31 Jan
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Not started
Device support
export
30 Nov
In stage from
⚠️ Breaking change
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title
Not started
Collection (publisher)
import
Q4 2024
Status
title
Not started
Collection (publisher)
export
Q4 2024
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title
Not started
Price condition
import
Q4 2024Q2 2025
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title
Not started
Price condition
export
Q4 2024Q2 2025
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title
Not started
Text and data mining
export
October 2024
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colour
BlueGreen
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In progressdone
Onix 3.1
Q4 2024
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title
Not started
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Guide
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> <SubjectSchemeIdentifier>24</SubjectSchemeIdentifier> <SubjectSchemeName>Bokbasen_Form</SubjectSchemeName> <SubjectHeadingText>Romaner</SubjectHeadingText> </Subject>
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.
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.
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.