As part of its commitment to promote and acknowledge the use of quality data throughout the book industry, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) today unveiled an enhanced Product Data Certification Program (PDCP), offering for the first time:

• descriptive qualitative feedback at the ISBN level
• new data categorization as good, excellent or ideal using three new certification levels: Bronze, Silver and Gold
• special acknowledgement for those using ONIX 3.0 and/or including additional marketing detail

In the digital reselling space a publisher’s metadata is exponentially important,” said Neil DeYoung, Director of Digital Media for Hachette. “It’s the responsibility of all publishers to become certified by BISG so downstream recipients can build to standards that will reduce sales reporting errors, improve the search and discoverability process for books and make the entire industry more efficient.”

As a means of quantifying the quality of product data against industry best practices, BISG’s Product Data Certification Program gives applicants an objective evaluation of their ONIX or Excel data files via a panel of leading North American data recipients, including Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Bowker, Ingram and the Library of Congress. Applicants whose data files meet the best practice criteria for data content and timeliness are certified by BISG as Quality Information Providers.

“To compete effectively today, data has to be right and it has to be on time,” said Scott Lubeck, BISG’s Executive Director. “With literally millions of new products competing for buyers’ attention, you can’t afford a missing title or cover image, or an incorrect price. The Product Data Certification Program plays an essential role in helping publishers, distributors and retailers — both online and bricks-and-mortar — improve the quality of this critical information.”

Source: http://www.bisg.org/news-5-532-bisg-strengthens-commitment-to-improving-book-industry-product-data.php

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