Metadata in book publishing

Metadata trends, insights, advice, and updates

Digital and Social Book Discovery

by Sabrina EBooks
Jellybooks Widgets for Book Samples

Digital Book World hosted an interesting webcast today, called Finding Books Without Borders: Discoverability in a Digital and Social World. Two fairly new companies, Jellybooks and Readmill, talked about how they tackle the issue in their own ways. 

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Trends and Startups in Book Publishing

by Sabrina EBooks

The last couple years have been a time of change for the publishing industry, and I expect this year to be the same. Every few weeks I’ve been hearing about new startups and ventures that expect to–and probably will–disrupt publishing. I think it’s worth sharing some of them here, and what their success could mean [...]

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Data Mining in the Publishing World

by Sabrina Future
Thumbnail image for Data Mining in the Publishing World

Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, by Yodane59 Big data is the latest buzz word in publishing, so it seems like an interesting issue to explore. Lots of new publishing related companies using data are springing up, such as Booklr, Hiptype, and Write or Read.

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More on Metadata

by Sabrina Metadata
Accurate Metadata for book and ebook sales

If you have some free time, you should watch the Making Your MetaData Better video. Around the 30 minute mark, Bob Oeste, Senior Programmer/Analyst, Johns Hopkins University Press starts his presentation, and he makes the whole concept of metadata entertaining. So, if you want to learn more about metadata, I highly recommend watching this video.

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ONIX and Metadata

by Sabrina Metadata
ONIX feed

This week was the last of the BISG’s series of webinars on metadata. The third and last webinar was Navigating the transition from ONIX 2.1 to 3.0, presented by Graham Bell, Chief Data Architect of EDItEUR. (You can read about the other two webinars on my posts The BISG’s Metadata Research Project and Understanding Metadata). 

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Understanding Metadata

by Sabrina Metadata
metadata effect on sales

Yesterday was part 2 of the BISG’s 3-part webcast series, Evolving Metadata Practices: Latest Research on Workflow, ROI, and the Transition to ONIX 3.0. Part two was called, Understanding Metadata ROI: Inisghts from Nielsen’s White Paper, The Link Between Metadata and Sales. Jonathan Nowell, from Nielsen BookData, presented data about the findings described in Nielsen’s white paper. [...]

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The BISG’s Metadata Research Project

by Sabrina Metadata

Today I listened to the first of three webinars hosted by the BISG about metadata. The series is called Evolving Metadata Practices, and today’s webinar was on A Research-Based Understanding of the Current Metadata Landscape: Full Results from BISG’s Metadata Research Project. 

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Understanding Metadata

by Sabrina Metadata

One of the first talks I went to at BookExpo America (BEA) this year was called, Understanding Metadata in the Digital Age. Bill Newlin, the publisher of Avalon, an imprint of Perseus, and Fran Toolan, the chief ignitor of Firebrand, presented. For this blog post, I will be focusing on external metadata (that goes in [...]

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