There has been a recent slew of standards updates, from subject codes to ONIX, so our Bibliographic Manager Tom Richardson is here to round up all the excitement into one handy overview.
We recently looked at LGBT book sales in another blog post, including how those titles are being classified. It made us think about the difference between LGBT subject codes and keywords. Thus began our quest to gain insight into keyword usage.
In this month's episode, we ask our Bibliographic Manager, Tom Richardson, to ruminate on how subject metadata can be optimized to better serve the book industry. Strap in for 20 minutes of subject codes, meandering, and lots of telling it like it is.