Codes
Note
Only the codes most relevant to ebooks and audiobooks are covered by the knowledge base. Refer to codelist 81 for additional codes.
For text content:
- 10: Text
- 16: Additional text not part of main content
- 17: Promotional text for other book product
- 45: Text within images
For auditory content:
- 01: Audiobook
- 02: Performance – spoken word
- 03: Music recording
- 13: Other speech content
- 21: Partial performance – spoken word
- 22: Additional audio content not part of main content
- 23: Promotional audio for other book product
For visual content:
- 06: Video
- 07: Still images / graphics
- 12: Maps and/or other cartographic content
- 18: Photographs
- 20: Additional images / graphics not part of main work
- 24: Animated / interactive illustrations
- 25: Narrative animation
- 26: Video recording of a reading
- 27: Performance – visual
- 28: Other video
- 29: Partial performance – video
- 30: Additional video content not part of main work
- 44: Sequential art
- 46: Decorative images or graphics
- 50: Video content without audio
For visual content indicators:
Frequently Asked Questions
- Should I use
PrimaryContentTypeorProductContentType? -
The
PrimaryContentTypeelement is used to indicate the primary form of the content. For most digital publications, this will be text, but some fixed layout content, for example, will be primarily visual. Similarly an audiobook will specify one of the audio type codes.The
ProductContentTypeelement is used to indicate the nature of any other content. A primarly text book with images, for example, would specify either the types of image content or, if the images do not convey information needed to understand the text, that they are decorative.The following markup would be used for a publication that is primarily text but also includes photographs:
<PrimaryContentType>10</PrimaryContentType> <ProductContentType>18</ProductContentType> - Can I have more than one
PrimaryContentType? -
No, ONIX records only allow one primary content type. If a publication mixes content types, pick the most essential for reading the content as the primary and list the others as product content types.