What the Onix??
From wikipedia:
ONIX for Books is an XML format for sharing bibliographic data pertaining to both traditional books and eBooks. It is widely implemented in the book trade in North America, Europe and increasingly in the Asia-Pacific region. It allows book and ebook publishers to create and manage a corpus of rich metadata about their products, and to exchange it with their customers (distributors and retailers) in a coherent, unambiguous, and largely automated manner.
Onix are just XML files with a defined structure. Basically consists on two main components. A <Header /> block and a list of <Products />, each one which describes the metadata of the books.
Onix can describe many things about a book, including:
- title
- author
- ISBN
- price
- availability
- blurb, reviews, and extracts
- BISAC Subject Codes
- ...etc
Our Intake
There are three versions: ONIX for books, ONIX 2 and ONIX 3. We currently only support Onix 3 files.
ONIX 3 elements has both ’Reference names’ also known as ’long tags’ (for example, <PersonNameInverted>) and ‘Short tags’ (for example, <b037>). We only support Reference names
Links
This is a link of helpful links that will help you to understand what Onix is all about, with examples.