Dates

Dates in ONIX 3.0 are given in the PublishingDate composite and the SupplyDate composite. For compatibility reasons, Metabooks only supports some of the product dates possible in ONIX 3.0

Subsequently, you will find detailed descriptions of the date entries provided by Metabooks.

• Publication Date
• Day of first sale
• Estimated day of delivery
• Earliest Announcement Date
• Initial publication of the original work

The publication date is the date on which a publication is released. As a rule, that is also the date from which the product is available to customers.

The publication date can be defined to the day, the month or the year. At the latest when the title is released, a precise day of publication should be specified. A specification to the month or year is primarily intended for pre-announcements, for which the exact publication date has not yet been determined.

A specific publication day is to be entered as follows.

<publishingdate>
 <x448>01</x448>
 <b306 dateformat="00">20170822</b306>
</publishingdate>

<PublishingDate>
 <PublishingDateRole>01</PublishingDateRole>
 <Date dateformat="00">20170822</Date>
</PublishingDate>

In the same fashion, you can also specify a particular month or year, although you will have to adapt the date format.

<publishingdate>
 <x448>01</x448>
 <b306 dateformat="01">201708</b306>
</publishingdate>

<PublishingDate>
 <PublishingDateRole>01</PublishingDateRole>
 <Date dateformat="01">201708</Date>
</PublishingDate>

By specifying a day of first sale (also called an embargo day), you inform the bookselling trade that the title is not to be sold before that day. Please specify a particular day as the day of first sale.

You can enter the day of first sale as follows.

<publishingdate>
 <x448>02</x448>
 <b306 dateformat="00">20170716</b306>
</publishingdate>

<PublishingDate>
 <PublishingDateRole>02</PublishingDateRole>
 <Date dateformat="00">20170716</Date>
</PublishingDate>

The estimated day of delivery is the day when a product is first available for delivery to the merchants. This may refer to delivery by a book wholesaler or by the publisher. The estimated day of delivery is also to be specified if a product is temporarily out of stock or otherwise unavailable.

An estimated day of delivery is to be entered as follows.

<supplydate>
 <x461>08</x461>
 <b306 dateformat="00">20171010</b306>
</supplydate>

<SupplyDate>
 <SupplyDateRole>08</SupplyDateRole>
 <Date dateformat="00">20171010</Date>
</SupplyDate>

For a title notification to Metabooks, this means that only you, as the publisher, and no bookseller are able to see the title in Metabooks Online. Also, no data is distributed to the bookselling trade. The Earliest Announcement Date thus sets your title to the status of a concept; as long as that status persists, you can change any and all product data without notification to the bookselling trade.

The Earliest Announcement Date is to be entered as follows.

<publishingdate>
 <x448>09</x448>
 <b306 dateformat="00">20170814</b306>
</publishingdate>

<PublishingDate>
 <PublishingDateRole>09</PublishingDateRole>
 <Date dateformat="00">20170814</Date>
</PublishingDate>

The initial publication of the original work is the date on which the intellectual or artistic creation contained in the product was first made accessible to the public. The original work need thus not be in the same product language or product form as the product described.

Examples for the Initial publication of the original work:

• For translations, the publication date of the first printed edition of the original work is to be specified.
• If you are reprinting a historical publication, you need to specify the date on which the original manuscript was written.
• For an audiobook, you would specify the publication date of the first printed edition in the original language.
  Please note: unlike ONIX 3.0 code list 163 for PublishingDateRole or x448, Metabooks does not distinguish between initial publication (code 11) and initial publication in the original language (code 20).

As an example, if the original publication of a product happened in 1963, the following entries would have to be made

<publishingdate>
 <x448>20</x448>
 <b306 dateformat="05">1963</b306>
</publishingdate>

<PublishingDate>
 <PublishingDateRole>20</PublishingDateRole>
 <Date dateformat="05">1963</Date>
</PublishingDate>