NISO Two-Part Webinar: Understanding Critical Elements of E-books: Standards for Formatting and Metadata
Part 2: Find That E-book – or Not: How Metadata Matters
March 21, 2012
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
Part 1 of this webinar will be held on March 14: Part 1: EPUB3: Putting Electronic Books into a Package
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- About the Webinar
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About the Webinar
2011 will likely be seen as the tipping point year for e-books. With more and more publications being issued in electronic format, how do users find what is available? How are identifiers such as the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and the new International Standard Text Code (ISTC) being applied to e-books and used in the supply chain? What metadata is crucial for making e-books discoverable? Without quality metadata, e-books will be invisible online. This webinar will discuss the key standards in the metadata supply chain and describe what can be done to ensure the discovery and delivery of the titles users will want to buy and read.
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Managing Director, NISO
Metadata: Without You I'm Nothing (Metadata Quality and its Importance in E-Book Discovery)
Laura Dawson, Communications Chief, Firebrand Technologies
E-books are invisible products. You'll never see one on the street, in the park, on the subway, in a store. E-book devices don't display cover images—digital reading is quite private. So how do readers find out about e-books? Without metadata, there's no indication that the e-book exists. And e-book trading partners have strange new requirements that print vendors don't have. In this talk, Laura Dawson discusses how to make e-books visible.
Laura Dawson specializes in the technology behind books. She has worked at Doubleday, Muze, Barnes & Noble.com, SirsiDynix, and as an independent consultant whose clients have included the Book Industry Study Group, Audible, McGraw-Hill, Chuckwalla, Adobe, Loyola Press, Cengage and Scholastic. She is now Communications Chief at Firebrand Technologies, helping publishers organize and distribute their metadata and e-book titles.
Pointing readers to the correct book: ISTC, ISBN and E-book Assignment
Pat Payton, Senior Director, Publisher Relations and Content Development, Bowker
The number of formats for a book has been increasing as more and more platforms make the same content available for sale. Pat Payton will cover when a work should have a new ISBN and how the ISTC can help collocate formats for searchers.
Patricia Payton, Senior Director of Publisher Relations and Content Development for Bowker, is responsible communicating metadata requirements and best practices to publishers of all sizes. Patricia has experience retail bookstores as well as international markets. She also holds a Master’s degree in Library Information Science specializing in Digital Libraries as well as an MBA. She actively contributes to industry committees for BISG and the AAP. You can find her on twitter @DiscoverBowker
ONIX for E-books
Graham Bell, Chief Data Architect at EDItEUR
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