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ONIX for Books is an XML format for sharing bibliographic data pertaining to both traditional books and eBooks. It is the oldest of the three ONIX standards, and is widely implemented in the book trade in North America, Europe and the Asia–Pacific region.
ONIX is built using something called XML. Let’s not worry what those letters stand for. (It’s ‘Extensible Markup Language’, but you don’t need to know that.)
ONIX (online Information exchange) refers to any of three XML standard metadata formats developed by EDItEUR for use primarily within the book trade. ONIX was originally a single standard for capturing and communicating bibliographic data relating to books.
An ONIX record is a separate XML file that is sometimes packaged together with an ebook, and sometimes left separate, but either way, it is distributed alongside an ebook. It contains all kinds of metadata about a book, like title, author, edition, page count, etc.
The support used in ONIX is an XML file which is a standard in information technology. ONIX has been developed to fulfill two needs: • To maintain a richer body of online information. • To provide a communication standard between different users and user groups.
General. What is ONIX? ONIX – more specifically ‘ONIX for Books’ – is a standard specification for communicating book, e-book and digital audio metadata between publishers, various intermediaries like distributors, wholesalers and data service organisations, and retailers in the book supply chain.
An ONIX message is the large file that gets sent to data recipients from Consonance, and it contains lots of ONIX fragments: one per product. Click on the row on the ONIX fragments page to see an example of your own data.
