Explore best practice metadata advice through the following articles which explore different aspects of ONIX and Thema – particularly as a tool for marketing and sales.

Find more best practice advice, along with supporting metadata information and details of Thema.

Promoting Australian titles: Identifying Australian authorship in metadata

A short guide on how to accurately tag Australian contributors in ONIX - and how to apply it to maximise discoverability

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UTF-8 / tohutō capability audit

A guide for publishers, distributors, and retailers across Australia and New Zealand to audit whether their systems can correctly handle UTF-8 text encoding and support all diacritics, including macrons (tohutō)

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Thema spotlight: educational publishing and the Australian curriculum

Explore Thema best practices for classifying educational materials and how to refine metadata to support learning across all levels and reach the right audiences including students, educators, librarians, and parents.

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Thema spotlight: showcasing social topics in stories for children & teens

Learn how to make the most of Thema to enhance discoverability of children’s and teen stories that explore important themes or social topics.

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Thema spotlight: boosting discoverability for genre fiction

Understand how the best practice use of Thema 1.6 can improve discoverability for genre fiction like romance, crime, fantasy and science fiction.

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Thema spotlight: national literature

Learn how to apply literature qualifiers in Thema to group and promote works that are strongly connected to a nation’s literary culture, and enhance the discoverability of backlist titles.

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Thema spotlight: place and time qualifiers in Thema

Learn how to use place and time qualifiers in Thema to improve discoverability, especially for books with a clear setting or historical focus, and understand the new Australian place qualifiers in Thema 1.6.

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