Industry-standard ONIX, generated for you
Turn a book’s metadata into a clean ONIX for Books 3 record, ready to feed retailers, aggregators and libraries.
Speak the trade’s language
Retailers, aggregators and libraries ingest metadata as ONIX for Books — the global standard maintained by EDItEUR. Hand-authoring ONIX is fiddly and easy to get wrong. Origami builds a valid ONIX 3 record from a book’s metadata, with contributor roles, identifiers, subjects and dates in the right places.
Pair it with metadata extraction and you go from a raw file to a distribution-ready record in minutes, not hours — consistent across every title in your catalogue.
ONIX for Books 3
Valid records that conform to the EDItEUR standard the trade ingests.
Built from your metadata
Contributor roles, identifiers, subjects and dates placed correctly.
Catalogue-wide consistency
The same structured output for every title you distribute.
How it works
Start from metadata
Extract a book’s metadata with Origami, or bring your own.
Generate the record
Origami builds a valid ONIX for Books 3 file.
Send to the trade
Feed the record to any retailer, aggregator or library that ingests ONIX.
Questions about ONIX
- What is ONIX?
- ONIX for Books is the international standard for communicating book product information to the supply chain, maintained by EDItEUR. Most retailers and aggregators require it.
- Which ONIX version do you generate?
- ONIX for Books 3, the current standard.
- Where does the data come from?
- From your book’s metadata — extract it with Origami’s metadata tool, then generate the ONIX record.
- Who can I send the file to?
- Any retailer, aggregator or library that ingests ONIX — which is most of them.
- Can I generate ONIX for my whole catalogue?
- Yes — the same structured output applies to every title.
ONIX for Books is maintained by EDItEUR. BISAC is a trademark of BISG; Thema is maintained by EDItEUR.
Generate ONIX for your catalogue in Origami
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