Important
Metadata Notice for Publishers from NIMACJuly 12, 2007 Dear Publisher
or Vendor, This is an important notice regarding batch submissions to the
NIMAC. Please find attached the Excel
spreadsheet template for use when submitting batch files to NIMAC. As this
version of the template includes some minor revisions, we ask you to please
discard any previous versions of the sheet and distribute this template to all
vendors who prepare your files for submission. It has come to our attention
through OverDrive that many vendors have not been using the OverDrive Excel template
provided in the publisher portal for use with batch submissions--or they have
not been correctly filling out the sheet. This has resulted in inefficiencies
and delays in the processing of files. Please be advised that OverDrive
will no longer accept batch submissions in which metadata is not provided using
the attached metadata Excel sheet. In addition, they will no longer make corrections
on behalf of vendors in cases where data is misformatted or incomplete. Vendors
will be required to resubmit the metadata Excel sheet before files will be loaded.
It is the reponsibility of publishers and vendors to contact NIMAC should any
questions arise regarding the correct procedures for submitting metadata.
As we do not have contact information for your vendors, please ensure that all
vendors receive the attached sheet and that they follow the instructions included
in the template for ALL file submissions from today forward. NIMAC will also soon
be sending you a much expanded metadata guidelines document for distribution to
your vendors. We hope this updated document will serve as a helpful resource for
vendors preparing files. Please don't hesitate to contact NIMAC at 877-526-4622
if you have any questions. Thanks. Nicole Nicole Gaines NIMAC ManagerNIMAC
1839 Frankfort Ave. Louisville, KY 40206 502 899-2230 NIMAC@aph.org |