Professional metadata management is a key success factor for reach, market access, and commercial performance. NEWBOOKS Solutions supports partner publishers in structuring their product data efficiently, maintaining it with precision, and automating its integration across all relevant distribution channels — from booksellers’ webshops through libraries and consortia to corporate libraries and digital marketplaces.
We automate ONIX and MARC record exports, integrate seamlessly into existing publishing system landscapes, and ensure that new, updated, and deleted records are transmitted daily, accurately, and in compliance with industry standards to all relevant recipients. This reduces manual effort, increases process efficiency, and sustainably strengthens publishers’ market presence.
As an integral component, metadata management is embedded within a high-performance middleware platform (DATA HUB) and complemented by services such as Product Information Management (PIM), bibliographic databases, and e-procurement and approval plan solutions. This creates a fully automated data and acquisition value chain that positions our publishing partners’ titles exactly where their target audiences search and place orders.
Subject Classification & Indexing
- Precise thematic classification of your titles according to industry standards
- Semantic subject enrichment for enhanced discoverability
- Optimisation for trade, libraries, and digital platforms
Automated ONIX Feeds
- Complete data management service
- Management of all data exports
- Targeted enrichment
- Maintenance of GPSR contact addresses
- Standards-compliant transmission of cover images and supplementary materials
- Ongoing management of THEMA updates
ONIX Services & System Integration
- Creation, validation, and export of ONIX data
- Seamless integration into internal systems (editorial, PIM, distribution)
- Ensuring consistent metadata across all relevant channels
Data Maintenance, Processes & Automation
- Continuous updating and quality assurance of your title data
- Automated workflows to reduce manual effort
- Efficient, scalable, and high-reliability process design
Content Services for Marketing & Sales
- Preparation of title data, descriptions, images, and supplementary information
- Target group-oriented, channel-appropriate data delivery
- Increased findability, relevance and conversion
Monitoring & Analytics
- Real-time monitoring of data flows and data quality
- Analytical dashboards for identifying optimisation potential
- Data-driven decision-making support for process and market management
MARC Records
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Automated MARC distribution: Generation and delivery of MARC records via FTP or data feed to libraries, consortia, and library suppliers.
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Market access and process efficiency: MARC data enables direct cataloguing within library systems, reduces manual workload, and is a prerequisite for the visibility of publishers’ titles in the library market.
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Standards compliance: Use of the internationally established MARC standard.