David Aldridge, chief technology officer, Consonance.app, told The Bookseller: “Editeur has been typically quick to respond to the need to carry GPSR information in ONIX, but passing contact details from publisher to retailer requires an unbroken chain of systems that supports the very latest standard ONIX standard 3.1.2.
“Keeping at the cutting edge of ONIX versions is likely not a priority in the last quarter of the year for metadata aggregators, distributors and retailers, with all organisations wary of disrupting their systems in the run up to the holiday season. We’re not currently aware of any ONIX-based route for getting full GPSR contact information into the hands of retailers.”
Aldridge says some large organisations are providing non-ONIX workarounds, but says there’s a lot of uncertainty about the effectiveness of the metadata supply chain in this case.
