Title and Product Language

• Titel
• Product language
• Data on University Publications

The main title is self-evidently the most important piece of information, and mandatorily to be entered into Metabooks. In practice, however, there are additional kinds of titles. Metabooks has been limited to the following three elements of title information, in addition to the main title.

• Original title: if your product is a translation, you should also provide the original title, original language and original publisher.
• Short Title: especially if the main title is very long, it is recommended to also provide a short title that can be displayed in search result lists easily and readably.
• Distributor Title: you may provide this for e-books.

Titles are entered into ONIX 3.0 in the TitleDetailComposite. The type of title is defined in both formats in cells TitleType resp. b202, values to be taken from Code list 15.
The following codes are to be used for the title information in Metabooks.

For each type of title, you can supply a title (TitleText or b203) and a subtitle (Subtitle or b029). If the title is short, you should forego any subtitles, however. ONIX 3.0 has the peculiarity that title and subtitle are encapsulated in a title element composite. The reason for this is that you can specify in each title element composite whether the title is for a product or for a series or hierarchy (collection). The types of title mentioned above are product titles, hence TitleElementLevel or x409 is to be filled with the value 01 from Code list 149.

A main title with title and subtitle is to be entered as follows:

<titledetail>
 <b202>01</b202>
 <titleelement>
 <x409>01</x409>
 <b203>Titel</b203>
 <b029>Untertitel</b029>
 </titleelement>
</titledetail>

<TitleDetail>>
 <TitleType>01</TitleType>
 <TitleElement>
 <TitleElementLevel>01</TitleElementLevel>
 <TitleText>Titel</TitleText>
 <Subtitle>Untertitel</Subtitle>
 </TitleElement>
</TitleDetail>

For books, you should always specify in which language they are written. If your book is a translation, you can also provide the language on which the original work was written. However, it is also recommended to provide information on available languages for audio and video products, as well as, if applicable, the languages of any subtitles.

Product languages are entered into the Language Composite. The type of language is to be entered in LanguageRole resp. b253, using values from Code list 22 . The specific product language is defined in LanguageCode resp. b252 using values from Code list 74.

If a product contains multiple languages of the same type (e. g. text language in a dictionary, subtitles on a DVD), repeat the Language Composite using the correct code for the type of language. If no proper language for a product can be determined (e. g. a stuffed animal), please enter the language used on its packaging.

A German-language product originally written in French is to be entered as follows:

<language>
 <b253>01</b253>
 <b252>ger</b252>
</language>
<language>
 <b253>02</b253>
 <b252>fre</b252>
</language>

<Language>
 <LanguageRole>01</LanguageRole>
 <LanguageCode>ger</LanguageCode>
</Language>
<Language>
 <LanguageRole>02</LanguageRole>
 <LanguageCode>fre</LanguageCode>
</Language>

• Type of university publication in ThesisType resp. b368 , using values from Code list 72.
• Name of the university in ThesisPresentedTo resp. b369
• The year in which it was published in ThesisYear resp. b370 as a four-digit number

With data on university publications or theses, it is mandatory to provide information on the type of thesis.

A bachelor thesis written or defended in 2010 at the Technische Universität Dresden would look as follows

<b368>06</b368>
<b369>TU Dresden</b369>
<b370>2010</b370>

<ThesisType>06</ThesisType>
<ThesisPresentedTo>TU Dresden</ThesisPresentedTo>
 <ThesisYear>2010</ThesisYear>