Publishers Supply Chain News Publishers Supply Chain News http://www.oclc.org/publishers/en/news/default.htm Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:19:57 EST Copyright 2010 OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. en-us support@oclc.org (OCLC Support) http://backend.userland.com/rss Saturday Sunday Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/ Merant Collage 1440 Spotlight on ... OCLC, WorldCat and the Publisher Supply Chain http://publishers.oclc.org/en/news/announcement20.htm Renee Register of OCLC describes work being done to break down silos and increase interoperability between publisher and library metadata.

See the article in the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Bulletin, Volume 9, No. 2, Spring 2010. ]]> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:10:00 EDT http://publishers.oclc.org/en/news/announcement20.htm Webinar recording now available: "Leverage the Power of WorldCat for Publishers." http://publishers.oclc.org/en/news/announcement19.htm Cindy Cunningham, Suzanne Kemperman and Renee Register of OCLC discuss WorldCat from a publisher's point of view.

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]]> Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:18:00 EDT http://publishers.oclc.org/en/news/announcement19.htm Webinar recording now available: "The Metadata is the Message." http://publishers.oclc.org/en/news/announcement17.htm Publishing industry consultant, Laura Dawson, discusses why good metadata is critical in helping readers find your books.

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]]> Tue, 04 May 2010 05:15:00 EDT http://publishers.oclc.org/en/news/announcement17.htm New OCLC Research report: Mapping ONIX to MARC, by Carol Jean Godby http://publishers.oclc.org/en/news/announcement18.htm This report presents an interpretation of a crosswalk from ONIX for Books 2.1 to MARC 21 developed by OCLC and made publicly available from the OCLC Web site and EDItEUR.

This work represents a major upgrade in the statement of how data for bibliographic description can be exchanged between two standards that are widely used in the library and publishing communities. The discussion considers practical outcomes and identifies theoretical and conceptual issues that will inform the next major revision of this strategically important relationship.

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