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Release 3.0 Downloads

Documentation
Schema definitions
ONIX 3.0 tagname converter
Code Lists for Release 3.0
How to describe sets and series in ONIX 3.0
How to describe digital products in ONIX 3.0 (draft December 2009)
How to send block updates in ONIX 3.0
Documentation in French

Documentation
For complete detailed documentation, the package below includes a new-style Data Element Summary, the full Product Information Format Specification (covering both the header and the body of the product information record), and a set of XML Technical Notes. It also includes HTML versions of Code Lists Issue 10, which are linked to the three accompanying PDF documents. The complete package must be extracted into a single folder in order for the links to be recognized.

ONIX_Books_Documentation_3.0+codes issue 10.zip

Schema definitions
Three schema definition options are available for ONIX 3.0. The recommended options are the ISO standard RelaxNG (RNG) schema language or the W3C (XSD) schema language, which allow more effective validity checking. However, a DTD option is also available. All three options support both reference names and short tags for ONIX data elements. Each is downloadable below as a zipped package. All three packages include Issue 10 code lists, but with a DTD these can be used only to control attribute values, not coded data elements.

For ONIX 2.1, EDItEUR maintains reference copies of the latest versions of the DTDs and XSD schemas on the website for online lookup as part of the validation of an ONIX message. For ONIX 3.0, we are unable to offer this facility, partly because of the greater variety of schema options which are now available, and partly because of the traffic loads which it places on the website. For validation purposes, you should download the latest version of the schema option which you prefer, and store it locally. For more detail, please see the XML Technical Notes which are part of the Release 3.0 documentation package downloadable on this page.

ONIX 3.0 tagname converter
The ONIX for Books Release 3.0 tagname converter is an XSLT script which enables ONIX reference names to be translated into short tags, and vice versa. The XSLT script and instructions for its use are available here. This script can only be used with ONIX files conforming to Release 3.0.

Code Lists for Release 3.0
Issue 10 of the ONIX Books Code Lists includes all of the new lists that are required for ONIX 3.0. You can download two PDF documents here which detail the changes made in Issue 10 that apply to ONIX 3.0 (including all those that apply across both 2.1 and 3.0), and provide an eye-readable list of all codes, old and new, which are used in ONIX 3.0.

ONIX_Code_Lists_Issue_10_Changes_for_Release_3.0.pdf

ONIX_Code_Lists_Issue_10_for_Release_3.0.pdf

Additional guidelines
These additional documents provide more detailed guidance on how to use ONIX 3.0 than it is possible to include in a formal specification:

How to describe sets and series in ONIX 3.0
ONIX 3.0 offers a new, better and more flexible way to describe sets and series. These guidelines also include worked examples of different use cases.

How to describe digital products in ONIX 3.0 (draft December 2009)
The variety of ways in which ebooks and other digital products are now formatted, packaged and distributed means that their description is necessarily something of a moving target. The guidelines and examples provided here are in some respects provisional, and we will very much appreciate comments, either on the ONIX_implement listserv or through the "Contact us" facility on the website (towards the bottom of the page). We expect to extend and improve these guidelines from time to time.

How to send block updates in ONIX 3.0
The new ‘block’ structure in ONIX 3.0 allows updates to individual blocks to be sent without sending complete replacement records. New records, complete replacement records and block updates can in principle be freely mixed in a single ONIX message. These guidelines provide details of notification type codes and business rules for ONIX 3.0 block updates.

Documentation in French
Pour les utilisateurs des pays francophones, il existe une traduction en français des ONIX Version 3.0, réalisée sous le contrôle du groupe ONIX France et avec le soutien du Cercle de la Librairie (Paris), disponible sur le site:

Guide ONIX 3.0 (français) avec Aperçu et Eléments 3.0 (français)(zip)

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