Knowledge Commons | Robert Desmond | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/robby/activity/ Activity feed for Robert Desmond. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:07:09 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 acf43ed815e1639ea47901a2d2134481 Robert Desmond replied to the topic ORCiDs for scholarly monographs? in the forum ONIX and Metadata Issues https://up.hcommons.org/groups/onix-and-metadata-issues/forum/topic/orcids-for-scholarly-monographs/#post-11857 Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:37:43 -0400 Where ORCiDs have been assigned, we - BiblioVault - are harvesting them from Chicago Distribution's Title Management instance and from non-Distribution publishers' ONIX data.

We are sending out ORCiDs in feeds that can take them. At the moment, that's mostly only to vendors that take ONIX 3. (I don't think anyone still doing Excel spreadsheets is…[Read more]

]]> c623f2ce4274bdf3e19f70c146e338c3 Robert Desmond replied to the topic Record reference formats in the forum ONIX and Metadata Issues https://up.hcommons.org/groups/onix-and-metadata-issues/forum/topic/record-reference-formats/#post-11665 Wed, 07 May 2025 14:33:52 -0400 Theoretically, RecordReference is a reference to the ONIX record itself (and thus the metadata) in your system, not the product. Thus the EDItEUR recommendation for a UUID, or at least an "org.pressname.ISBN" format. It should uniquely identify this source of metadata, not the particular title. That's the role of the various identifier…[Read more]

]]> fa35cd1fd02b67c6714bf39abcc93b8f Robert Desmond replied to the topic ONIX Feeds for Library of Congress CIP registration in the discussion ONIX and Metadata Issues https://up.hcommons.org/groups/onix-and-metadata-issues/forum/topic/onix-feeds-for-library-of-congress-cip-registration/#post-8461 Fri, 26 May 2023 13:27:36 -0400 We have a number of member presses with the ability to send files and metadata to LOC's CIP program. Most of them are using it to apply specifically for e-book registration, not print.

LOC are getting both book files (PDF) and metadata (ONIX), so pre-publication/galley PDFs would be needed if someone wanted to use this to apply for print…[Read more]

]]> 8f8277f8cd38598afc10a4f712291b42 Robert Desmond's profile was updated https://up.hcommons.org/activity/p/1837976/ Mon, 20 Mar 2023 13:21:40 -0400 0 928f0f71417947fdf05dce8c8bc27a70 Robert Desmond replied to the topic Open Access Metadata in the discussion ONIX and Metadata Issues https://up.hcommons.org/groups/onix-and-metadata-issues/forum/topic/open-access-metadata/#post-7056 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:10:04 -0400 In the full ONIX 3 specification, "$0.00" is not a price that should ever exist. Either a non-zero <Price> block or an <UnpricedItemType> tag should be used.

Ideally, someone properly parsing ONIX should either disallow a price of "$0.00" or, more realistically, treat it differently.

For example:
You can make a book "free" via sending…[Read more]

]]> f2513130e43e1ab2ff040da5f259b52f Robert Desmond replied to the topic Open Access Metadata in the discussion ONIX and Metadata Issues https://up.hcommons.org/groups/onix-and-metadata-issues/forum/topic/open-access-metadata/#post-7011 Thu, 15 Sep 2022 12:09:15 -0400 Though I suspect Trond overstates my capability, I appreciate the confidence.

He brings up a point that's clearer in the slide stack than in what I posted: using multiple eISBNs.

As the slides point out, there are a few ways you might use multiple eISBNs in general.

Your system might allow you to create an "OA" eISBN versus a "free" eISBN (in…[Read more]

]]> c459b01d5868332bb21f99cc12de8efc Robert Desmond replied to the topic Open Access Metadata in the discussion ONIX and Metadata Issues https://up.hcommons.org/groups/onix-and-metadata-issues/forum/topic/open-access-metadata/#post-7001 Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:30:27 -0400 I'll upload the slides from my presentation at AUPresses this year if I can, but the gist of it is that BiblioVault classifies 4 types of vendors in their "OA-ness":

OA "Only" - hopefully self explanatory, these vendors take ONIX 3, with UnpricedItemType with value "01" for free/no-charge, EpubLicense, and other OA specific tags. OAPEN,…[Read more]

]]> 02b79f4c74ce3a0de62ff329866fd55b Robert Desmond replied to the topic LCSH in Metadata in the discussion ONIX and Metadata Issues https://up.hcommons.org/groups/onix-and-metadata-issues/forum/topic/lcsh-in-metadata/#post-6958 Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:49:19 -0400 EBSCO was having trouble getting them from their Excel sheets (they do both Excel and ONIX), so we added them to our ONIX 2.1 and ONIX 3 output. It seems to have helped the EBSCO situation. No idea if any other vendors are using the data, but we send it. SubjectSchemeIdentifier "04"

]]> b645537c8132976026f391b20a874ce3 Robert Desmond replied to the topic Metadata: Best practice for Edition info in ONIX? in the discussion ONIX and Metadata Issues https://up.hcommons.org/groups/onix-and-metadata-issues/forum/topic/metadata-best-practice-for-edition-info-in-onix/#post-5426 Thu, 04 Nov 2021 14:08:38 -0400 As an aside, the English teacher in me wants to say that the "abridged" adjective is in the wrong place. This is the second iteration of the abridged edition, so my instinct is that you to call it the "2nd abridged edition" because it comes after the "(implied: 1st) abridged edition".

This has nothing to do, of course, with traditional naming…[Read more]

]]> a85980e00f6b0b4506f1eb3369b02729 Robert Desmond replied to the topic Metadata: Searchability during a Name Change in the discussion ONIX and Metadata Issues https://up.hcommons.org/groups/onix-and-metadata-issues/forum/topic/metadata-searchability-during-a-name-change-2/#post-4962 Mon, 30 Aug 2021 19:08:03 -0400 The presence of the <AlternativeName> block within <Contributor> blocks in ONIX 3 and the use of ORCIDs or ISNIs are meant to deal with the situation, but the question exists of whether they are used/accepted by the database you're using or the vendors you're sending to. It may be that you can't do AlternativeName, but you can have their old name…[Read more]

]]> b77951a192d852929c4f428f4d0f3ef3 Robert Desmond replied to the topic Chapter abstracts in the discussion ONIX and Metadata Issues https://up.hcommons.org/groups/onix-and-metadata-issues/forum/topic/chapter-abstracts/#post-4900 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 20:08:55 -0400 BiblioVault's ONIX 3 output can send chapter data (including abstracts and keywords if stored), but currently only Project MUSE and DeGruyter are getting them. (I don't think MUSE has indicated to us that they're ignoring the data. It would be odd, since they helped us debug the output.) Since we are an "aggregator" of the metadata, we collect the…[Read more]

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