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Originally Posted by st_albert
Our experience is precisely as Hitch described.
AFAIK, no aggregator or distributor digs into the epub metadata for anything.
That said, if I really really wanted to include BISAC codes, or their human-readable equivalents, in the metadata, I would simply put it within the <dc:subject> tags like any other keywords.
We do use the <dc:subject> tags, although I am unaware of any software that makes use of them at the moment. Maybe Calibre? Kind of like the Voyager project; we send it out there, not knowing who is listening....
Albert
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Hey, Albert:
Ditto, we use the subject tags, also, and the description tag; but like you we don't kluge the BISAC codes themselves in there. No point to it, as humans generally don't search that way. We use them for the theoretical Deep Web and because we think that it's likely that libraries my send out searchbots
someday through the DB's looking for keywords, rather than BISACs which they can pick up from the actual metadata/ONIX input.
Best,
Hitch