One of the parts of book publishing that seems to confound newcomers to the field is the purpose and use of the International Standard Book Number (ISBN). Not only that, but since the rise of companies that perform publishing services for authors, there has been even...
Metadata—even the word sounds hard to understand. meta comes from the Greek, and means “above” or “enclosing” Metadata is simply data about data. In other words, metadata is information about your data. You can think of data as being an...
In the beginning was the word, and the words are what make the book. But soon thereafter, came the metadata—that is, data about the data. When you publish a new book, you have a chance to assign metadata to your book that will travel with descriptions of the...