Changes in ONIX (2024/2025)
- 1 Changelog
- 2 Introduction
- 3 General note about compatibility
- 4 Schedule / Status
- 5 Features / changes
- 5.1 Contributor Unnamed Persons Breaking change
- 5.2 Subject - Genre and form
- 5.3 Subject - Subjects
- 5.4 EUDR, FSC, PEFC, carbon emission
- 5.5 Contributor Role Code
- 5.6 Chapters in audio and ebooks
- 5.7 Device support Breaking change
- 5.8 Price condition (automatic renewed)
- 5.9 Collection (Norw. forlagsserie)
- 5.10 Text and data mining
- 5.11 GPSR - General Product Safety Regulation (EU)
- 5.12 Kulturrådets innkjøpsordninger (K-fond) Breaking change
- 5.13 Literary prizes
- 5.14 City of publication
- 5.15 Text content
- 5.16 Title type
- 5.17 From language
- 5.18 Contributor statement
- 5.19 Dewey Breaking change
- 5.20 Work as subject
- 5.21 Supporting resource - image of book’s back cover
- 5.22 Collection: original title
- 5.23 TextContent: short description
- 6 Onix 3.1
Changelog
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8.10.2025 | All changes specified in this page are done. |
8.10.2025 | EUDR, FSC, PFEC and carbon emissions will be addressed in v3 of Onix |
Aug 19, 2025 | Short description added to Onix records (v2) |
Jun 17, 2025 | Image of book-cover in production (v2) |
Jun 12, 2025 | Short description will be added to v2 only. |
Jun 3, 2025 | Original title for collections added to v2. |
May 15, 2025 | Image for book’s back cover will be added to v2 |
May 8, 2025 | Work as subject will be added to v2 |
Apr 23, 2025 | In v2: Accompanying material in TextContent Changes in text content New title types Contributor statement, from language added |
Apr 9, 2025 | Subject from NEO now in v2 |
Apr 3, 2025 | Subjects will include language attribute, both for genre/form and subjects Reintroducing Literary prizes in v2 |
Mar 27, 2025 | PriceCondition postponed until further notice. EUDR, FSC etc. moved to Q3 and v3-endpoint of Onix. |
Feb 24, 2025 | GPSR + Kulturrådet are now done |
Jan 22, 2025 | Introducing v2-endpoint for Onix Export. Most new features will be exclusive to the new v2-endpoint, see also deprecation-notice for v1. |
Nov 29, 2024 |
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Onix Export v1 - deprecated: Oct 6, 2025
Onix Export v2 has been available since October 2024, and is now the only version available.
For both Onix records to and from Bokbasen, Onix 3.1 is now the supported version.
Changes for Onix V3 will be documented and published in a new page for this. Link will be provieded here when ready.
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.
Introducing a new export-endpoint (v2)
When we introduce Onix 3.1 we see that we need a new endpoint to not break existing integrations.
All the new features will be available from export-endpoint “v2”. See dokumentation ONIX
Schedule / Status
Feature | Available from (endpoint version) | Status |
|---|---|---|
Contributor Unnamed Persons
| Q4 2024 | done |
Contributor Unnamed Persons
| In prod from Jan 31, 2025 (only v2) Breaking change | done |
Subject
| September 2024 | done |
FSC, PEFC, carbon emission, EUDR
| Q3 2025 Will be addressed in v3 of Onix | not started |
FSC, PEFC, carbon emission, EUDR
| Q3 2025 Will be addressed in v3 of Onix | not started |
Contributor Role Code
| November 2024 | done |
Contributor Role Code
| November 2024 | done |
Chapters in audio/text books
| January 2025 (only v2) | done |
Device support
| Nov 30, 2024 End-of-life for old syntax Feb 28, 2025 | done |
Device support
| January 2025 (only v2) In stage from Dec 15, 2024 Breaking change | done |
Collection (publisher)
| Q4 2024 | done |
Collection (publisher)
| Q4 2024 (only v2) | done |
Price condition (automatic renewed)
| Q2 2025 | postponed |
Price condition (automatic renewed)
| Q2 2025 | postponed |
Text and data mining
| October 2024 | done |
Onix 3.1
| Q2 2025 | done |
Onix 3.1
| Jan 22, 2025 (only v2) | done |
GPSR - General Product Safety Regulation (EU) | Q1 2025 (only v2) | Done |
Kulturrådets innkjøpsordninger | Q1 2025 (only v2) Breaking change | Done |
Subject from NEO | Q2 (only v2) | Done |
Literary prizes | April 2025 (only v2) | Done |
City of publication | April 2025 (only v2) | Done |
Text content | April 2025 (only v2) | Done |
Title type | April 2025 (only v2) | Done |
Dewey | April 2025 (only v2) Breaking change | Done |
From language | April 2025 (only v2) | Done |
Contributor statement | April 2025 (only v2) | Done |
Work as subject | May 2025 (only v2) | Done |
Image of back cover | Q2, only v2 | Done |
Original title of collection | Q2, only v2 | Done |
Short description | Q3, only v2 | Done |
Features / changes
Contributor Unnamed Persons Breaking change
Breaking Change
Only for export
Unnamed Persons allows positive indication of content generated by AI or where synthesised voices are used for audio content.
Unnamed Persons is part of the Contributor composite.
Unnamed Persons will be supported both for metadata to and from Bokbasen.
Subject - Genre and form
The Subject element contains classification from several different schemes.
Bokbasen will deprecate two proprietary vocabularies for literary form and genres, and replace them with terms from the official Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form (NTSF). The thesaurus is provided by the National Library of Norway.
All records will be updated with terms and URIs from NTSF.
Terms from NTSF will be supported in records from Bokbasen only.
Terms from proprietary vocabularies and NTSF will be included in records from Bokbasen in parallell to facilitate this transition
Subject - Subjects
Bokbasen will deprecate the proprietary vocabulary for subjects, and replace them with terms from the official Norwegian thesaurus for subjects (NEO). The thesaurus is provided by the National Library of Norway, and will (if not delayed) be published 1st of April 2025.
All records will be updated with terms and URIs from NEO.
All records will contain terms in both Norwegian bokmål and Norwegian nynorsk. The language attribute will state the language.
Use the language attribute to choose which language you wish to use in your system / at your site.
Mapping from proprietary subjects to subjects from NEO will be provided.
More information will be posted here, when Bokbasen has more information about the publication date of NEO.
EUDR, FSC, PEFC, carbon emission
Support for EUDR is postponed due to delays in the implementation of the regulation, and consequences for the Norwegian market.