About the Metadata Committee
BIC members interested in joining the BIC Metadata Sub-Committee should read the Terms of Reference and complete the application form here and send to info@bic.org.uk.
Please note, the opportunity to sit on any BIC Committee or Group is reserved solely for BIC members.
Current Committee Membership
Full Name | BIC Member Organisation |
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Graham Bell | EDItEUR |
John Bell | HarperCollins |
Helen Blount | Usbourne |
Imogen Blundell | Nosy Crow |
Catriona Brown | Canongate Books Ltd |
Jo Burges | knk Publishing Software |
Galina Chavdarova | Hachette UK |
Dan Fridd | Above the Treeline |
Toby Gill | Virtusales Publishing Solutions |
Eric Green | Bibliographic Data Services |
Sabine Guerry | CloudPublish |
Alex Harrison | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Kitty Kennedy / Ingrid Arnold | Dorling Kindersley |
Azar Hussain | Faber & Faber |
Eleanor Jones | Pan Macmillan |
Vlad Kriz | Penguin Random House |
Jessica Patient | Nielsen BookData |
Sylvia Pegg | The Royal Society of Chemistry |
Chris Saynor | EDItEUR |
James L. Smith | Eurospan |
Antonia Squire | The Bookshop |
Jack Tipping | BooksoniX |
Karina Urquhart | BIC |
Gabrielle Wallington (Deputy) | Waterstones |
Howard Willows | Nielsen BookData |
Jon Windus (Chair) | Nielsen BookData |
Current agenda items include:
- Keywords best practice
- Updates on BIC’s project work
- Matching ISNIs to publishers’ author data trial
- BIC Metadata Excellence Award (MEA) Scheme
- Watching Brief: ONIX Subtitle & Promotional Headline fields
- UK ONIX National Group Update
- UK Thema National Group Update
Minutes from meetings
Copies of the notes from the most recent, or any past meetings of this committee, are available (to BIC members only) upon request via: contact us.
Committee meetings frequency
Quarterly Committee Meetings: January, May, July, October.
National Groups feeding into this Committee
UK ONIX National Group
Meeting notes:
Notes from the most recent meeting (and all meetings prior) are available on request (to BIC members only), contact us.
Quarterly Meetings: March, June, September, December.
UK Thema National Group
Meeting notes: Notes from the most recent meeting (and all meetings prior) are available on request (to BIC members only), contact us.
Quarterly Meetings: March, June, September, December.