BIC’s ONIX: Advanced Topics Training Course

Purpose of the Course
Recent research shows that good metadata leads to increased sales*. With that in mind, this advanced course mixes the theoretical discussion of metadata with practical examples and guidance, and links metadata very clearly with supply chain effectiveness and commercial success.

*Nielsen White Paper: The Link Between Metadata and Sales:

Benefits of Attending
Experienced ONIX users will learn how to optimise their metadata and deal with the more complex aspects of ONIX by attending this course.

Course Level 
This course is aimed at experienced ONIX users with a good background in ONIX 2.1 and/or 3.0. Delegates should previously have attended the BIC ONIX: Essentials training course or have extensive experience with ONIX, gained over several years. Attendees do not require a technical background — the course is suitable for both publishing staff and software developers seeking domain knowledge.

Course Outline
The content of this course is modular and will be tailored to the particular interests of delegates; consequently, each course will be different. However, the overall content will be as follows:

1) Identifiers and Core Semantics:

• WMI stack in indecs, WEMI in FRBR, comparison with other stacks
• Class inheritance, where in the stack does each data element live?
• Class diagrams and database schemas
• SKUs and proprietary GTINs
• ISNI and other name identifiers
• Work IDs

2) ONIX for eBooks:

• The basic differences
• Can I do…?
• Accessibility
• Rentals

3) ONIX 2.1 to ONIX 3.0 Migration:

• Why does ONIX 3.0 exist (rather than 2.2)?
• What current data is okay, what are you likely to be missing?
• Key parts of a migration (what parts of the message change?)
• Block updates

4) Recent Additions in ONIX 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3

5) Question and Answer Session:

• (Bring your own ONIX file…)

6) Practical Demos (spread throughout the day):

• How to validate ONIX messages
• Why character sets and encodings are important
• Tag name conversion

Read the full course outline here.

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