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Maintenance and support

General
ONIX for Books International Steering Committee
ONIX for Books National Groups
ONIX for Books Technical Committee
Implementation Listserv

General
ONIX for Books standards are maintained by the EDItEUR ONIX Support Team in consultation with ONIX national groups, and under the direction of an international steering committee. Currently, the EDItEUR consultants with primary responsibility for the standard are David Martin and Francis Cave.

Change requests are reviewed by the Support Team, and are circulated periodically to national groups for consultation. As ONIX for Books has developed, its structures have been increasingly generalised, so that most new requirements can be met by adding code values. In such cases, the elapsed time between the identification of need and the publication of a suitable response can be reasonably short. For changes which can only be met by extensions to the structure of the product record, the need must be balanced against the importance of maintaining stability.

There are three main routes by which users can put forward comments, questions or suggestions for improvements. If you are in one of the countries which has an ONIX for Books national group, you are encouraged to contact that group - see below. Or you can send comment to the ONIX implementation listserv. Or if you prefer, you can email EDItEUR.

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ONIX for Books International Steering Committee
Each national ONIX for Books user group is represented on the ONIX for Books International Steering Committee which is chaired by Michael Holdsworth. The ONIX for Books International Steering Committee meets twice a year (at the Frankfurt and London Book Fairs).

Minutes of the ONIX for Books International Steering Committee 21 April 2009

Minutes of the ONIX for Books International Steering Committee 13 October 2009

Minutes of the ONIX for Books International Steering Commiteee 20 April 2010

Minutes of the ONIX for Books International Steering Committee meeting by phone conference 11 June 2010

The terms of reference for the ONIX for Books International Steering Committee are available here.

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ONIX for Books National Groups
There are ONIX for Books National Groups in France, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Russia, South Korea, US, Canada, Australia, UK.

The terms of reference for the ONIX for Books National Groups are available here.

Contacts

Country	Website	Email
Canada	http://www.booknetcanada.ca or http://www.btlf.qc.ca (French Canada)	biblio@booknetcanada.ca or acquisition@btlf.qc.ca (French Canada)
Germany	http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ONIX-de	uwe.janssen@knv.de
Netherlands and Flanders	https://portal5.boekhuis.nl/xmlpages/page/onix	info@onixwerkgroep.org
UK	http://www.bic.org.uk	info@bic.org.uk
US	http://www.bisg.org	metadata@bisg.org

(Contact details for other national groups will be included here as soon as we receive approval to link to them from the respectiive web site and email owners).

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ONIX for Books Technical Committee

The terms of reference for the ONIX for Books Technical Committee are available here.

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Implementation Listserv
The ONIX_IMPLEMENT email list is open to all current and prospective users of the ONIX International product information standards.

The list acts as the forum for asking questions about the interpretation of ONIX standards, raising any practical problems which need to be addressed in future releases, and participating in discussion aimed at finding the best solutions.

Discussion on the list is an important source of input to the continuing development of ONIX standards. Sign up to the listserv.

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