- 1. 1 Thema Julie Morris, BISG | [email protected] The NISO/BISG
Changing Standards Landscape at ALA 2014 | June 27 2013, the Book
Industry Study Group, Inc. The new, global subject classification
scheme Copyright 2014, | The Book Industry Study Group
2. Agenda 2 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. What is
Thema, and why does it matter? Thema as a subject categories list
The global book trade Thema vs. BISAC: Structural Analysis What
next? Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group 3. 3 2013, the
Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book Industry
Study Group What is Thema, and why do I care? 4. 4 2013, the Book
Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study
Group What is Thema, and why do I care? Thema is a new, unified
subject classification scheme for print and digital books in the
global trade. 5. 5 2013, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group Subject Categories
for Books in North America 6. 6 To facilitate innovation and shared
solutions for the benefit of all companies and practitioners that
create, produce, and distribute published content, and the
organizations that support them 2013, the Book Industry Study
Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group 7.
Standards and Best Practices Research Education and Events 2013,
the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. 7Copyright 2014, The Book
Industry Study Group 8. BISAC 8 2012, the Book Industry Study
Group, Inc. subject classification system for books developed in
1990s to standardize the electronic transfer of subject information
among all trading partners used throughout North America for both
print and digital books Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study
Group 9. Who uses BISAC? 9 2012, the Book Industry Study Group,
Inc. Amazon Baker & Taylor Barnes & Noble Bookscan Bowker
Indiebound Indigo Ingram Most major publishers Some libraries
Independent authors Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group
10. Why BISAC? 10 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group Discovery Cataloging
Tracking (and predicting) sales Making informed purchasing
decisions 11. Discovery: an example 11Copyright 2014, The Book
Industry Study Group Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for
Life Among the Stars by Lee Billings (Current, 2013) Cosmos by Carl
Sagan (Random House, 1980) 12. Discovery: an example 12 2012, the
Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book Industry
Study Group * Taken from the title detail page for Five Billion
Years of Solitude from booksandbooks.com (Cara Cara, FL) 13. BISAC:
an example 13 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright
2014, The Book Industry Study Group SCI 004000 Main Subject
Category (SCIENCE) Specific subject within category 14. 14 2013,
the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book
Industry Study Group What is Thema, and why do I care? Thema is a
new, unified classification scheme for print and digital books in
the global trade. 15. The problem 15 2012, the Book Industry Study
Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group 16. The
problem: Globalization! 16 2012, the Book Industry Study Group,
Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group Digital trade
increases the need for communication among international trading
partners Many international standards exist to support global book
trade ONIX ISBN ISNI EPUB BISAC (and other national subject
schemes) do not 17. Enter Thema 17 2012, the Book Industry Study
Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group 18. Enter
Thema 18 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014,
The Book Industry Study Group 19. Thema Governance 19 2012, the
Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book Industry
Study Group International Steering Committee (governed by EDItEUR)
Technical CommitteeReview Committee National Group National Group
National Group National Group 20. Thema National Groups 20 2012,
the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book
Industry Study Group Canada Booknet Canada and BTLF Egypt - El
Kotob France CLIL Germany, Austria and Switzerland MVB Italy
Informazione Editoriali Norway Bokbasen Spain DILVE Sweden
Bokrondellen United Kingdom BIC United States BISG And the list is
growing 21. How can Thema help? 21 2012, the Book Industry Study
Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group
International standard for the global book trade Reduce confusion
Increase discoverability across borders Reduce the need to map to
among multiple national subject heading schemes BIC BISAC CLIL 22.
22 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. 22 Thema countries:
June 2014 Maps from www.presentationmagazine.com 23. Participating
Organizations AIE Amazon.co.uk Australian PA Baker & Taylor
Barnes & Noble BIC BISG Bokrondellen Booknet Canada Bowker BTLF
CB Danish PA Dilve Editis Electre Elkotob.com Elsevier Giant Chair
Guild of Book Dealers (Russia) Hachette HarperCollins Informazioni
Editoriali Ingram IPA Japan Publishers Organisation Kobo Kogan Page
Libri MVB NTCPDSAC (China) Nielsen Book Norske Bokdatabasen NTCPDS
China Random House Springer Waterstones Copyright 2014, The Book
Industry Study Group 23 24. Global Thema Adoption Growing 24 2012,
the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book
Industry Study Group China, Japan, Poland, Australia joined ISC
since fall 2013. Denmark and Korea currently evaluating Thema. In
the United Kingdom: Nielsen receiving Thema codes from at least one
publisher several major IT vendors building Thema into their
systems (Klopotek, Virtusales, Giant Chair) German Books in Print
system (VLB) now including Thema codes in live data 25. Thema is
live! 25 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014,
The Book Industry Study Group Version 1.0 released November 2013
Sunrise date December 2013 2014 is the year for implementation! 26.
What now? 26 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright
2014, The Book Industry Study Group 27. What now? 27 2012, the Book
Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study
Group Will Thema replace BISAC? 28. What now? 28 2012, the Book
Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study
Group Will Thema replace BISAC? Eventually, yes (possibly) But not
yet 29. What now? 29 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group BISG BISAC to Thema
mapping released January 2014 BookNet Canada and BISG BISAC to
Thema Translator BIC to Thema mapping available Other mappings
being developed 30. Implementation 30 2012, the Book Industry Study
Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group 31.
Implementation 31 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group 32. Five Billion
Years 32 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014,
The Book Industry Study Group BISAC SCI004000 Astronomy SCI005000
Physics/Astrophysics Thema PG Astronomy, Space & Time PHVB
Astrophysics Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life
Among the Stars, by Lee Billings 33. BISAC vs. Thema: Structural
Elements 33 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright
2014, The Book Industry Study Group BISAC Thema Subject Category
(required in ONIX) PHO021000 PHOTOGRAPHY / Commercial Regional code
(optional) 1.1.2.2.0.0.0 LEVEL_4England Merchandising code
(optional) EV080EVENT / Graduation Subject Category (required in
ONIX) AJ Photography & Photographs Geographic Qualifiers 1HFGU
Uganda Language Qualifiers 2ACSC Iceland Time Period Qualifiers 3MD
16th Century Educational Purpose Qualifiers 4GH For International
GCSE Interest Qualifiers 5AG Interest Age: from c 6 years Artistic
Style Qualifiers 6BA Baroque 34. BISAC vs. Thema: Structural
Elements 34 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright
2014, The Book Industry Study Group BISAC Thema 51 Top-level
subject categories About 3950 total subject codes + Regional and
Merchandising Themes 20 Top-level subject categories About 2,500
total subject codes 6 Types of Qualifiers Over 4,500 total codes
35. Thema: Structural Elements contd 35 2012, the Book Industry
Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group 1.
Subject Category codes Code English heading A The Arts AJ
Photography & Photographs AJC Photographs: Collections AJCD
Individual photographers 2. Qualifiers Code English heading 1
Geographic Qualifiers (do not use 1 alone) 1D Europe 1DD Western
Europe 1DDB Belgium 1DD-BE-B Brussels 1DD-BE-F Flanders 36. War and
Peace 36 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014,
The Book Industry Study Group BISAC FIC004000 Fiction/ Classics
FIC032000 Fiction/ War & Military 1.6.16.0.0.0.0 LEVEL_3Russia
Thema FBC Classic fiction 1DTA Russia 3MNB Early 19th century c
1800 to c 1850 FYT Fiction in translation [If in any language other
than Russian] War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy 37. Thema: The rules 37
2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014, The Book
Industry Study Group 1. First category used should be the primary
subject 2. Classify as precisely as applicable, but as broadly as
required 3. Assign as many categories as are required 4. Pay
attention to scope notes and see also references 5. Add qualifiers
whenever appropriate 6. Consider context, and audience 7. General
codes need not be used in addition to more specific codes within
the same hierarchy 8. Not a rule but a guideline: no more than 5
each codes/qualifiers should be necessary. 38. Find out more about
Thema! 38 2012, the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. Copyright 2014,
The Book Industry Study Group Download the official documentation
from the EDItEUR site: http://www.editeur.org/151/Thema/ Browse the
Thema subject categories hierarchy:
http://editeur.dyndns.org/thema/en Lookup Thema codes with the
BISAC to Thema translator: http://bisactothema.biblioshare.org/ or
purchase the complete mapping:
https://www.bisg.org/publications/bisac-subject-headings-2013-
edition Contact your national group with questions!
http://www.editeur.org/153/maintenance-and-
support#thema_ng_and_isc 39. 39 2012, the Book Industry Study
Group, Inc. Thank you! Julie Morris Project Manager, Standards and
Best Practices Book Industry Study Group [email protected] @JN_Morris
Copyright 2014, The Book Industry Study Group