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Frankfurt: Thursday 5 June 2025

The reading rooms of the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main will open at 13:00 on Thursday, 5 June due to a staff assembly. The exhibitions of the German Exile Archive 1933–1945 will be open from 9:00 to 21:30.

ONIX for Books 3.0 and 2.1

ONIX for Books 3.0 and 2.1 can be used to deposit e-books, audio books and printed music.

Metadata documentation for the format ONIX 3.0, version 1.0, dated 29/09/2021(only available in German)

Sample files with XML-data in “ONIX for Books 3.0”

Metadata documentation for the format ONIX 2.1, version 2.2, dated 31/05/2023 (only available in German)

Sample files with XML-data in “ONIX for Books 2.1”

Schemes and further information can be found at http://www.editeur.org.

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