I spent two days in Los Angeles earlier this week at the first-ever conference for music metadata. I presented on lessons of the book industry that can help the music industry. I’ve posted my slides. Billboard offered a music industry perspective on the presentations.
Anne Hill of Creative Content Coaching Interviews Renée and Thad
Anne Hill of Creative Content Coaching recently conducted video interviews with us, exploring metatdata issues for authors, small publishers, and the larger publishing community. Anne advises authors and independent professionals on marketing, social media strategies, and making their voices heard. Interview with Thad McIlroy. Interview with Renée Register. Anne is offering an author platform workshop in Chicago [...]
Listening to Metadata
The Copyright Clearance Center runs a great podcast series called Beyond the Book, ably moderated by Christopher Kenneally (who sounds like he was born into the role). Recent podcasts have included Open Access Publishing Trends, Eliminating Obstacles to Global Ebook Sales, and our own The Metadata Handbook. My co-author, Renée Register, was joined by the extremely knowledgeable Patricia Payton, Senior [...]
Five Things You Should Know About Metadata
You hear a lot of talk out there about the importance of metadata in publishing and bookselling, but there’s still confusion around what it is and how to do it well. Here are five things publishers should know. 1. Metadata isn’t a new concept. Book metadata is at least as old as the Library at [...]
Every Word in a Book is Metadata
Book reviews often include excerpts from the book text thereby making small portions of the text searchable. So why not the entire book? Authors and publishers worry about digital theft when a book is posted in its entirety online. But both Amazon and Google can make an entire text searchable without making it available for [...]