A Research On The Information Standardization Of Chinese Publishing Industry

The trend of digitalization and internet is the prominent characteristic in the current age of information. More and more publishing companies are raising the information construction to a strategic height. Nevertheless, due to the lack of standard and formality of publishing information exchange, the information systems of most publishing enterprises remain isolate islands. Being not able to connect and exchange with each other, the current information system greatly lowered the efficiency of information construction. This thesis made a brief classification on the concept and content of information standardization in publishing industry, emphasizing on several informal forms of publishing information, investigating the reasons and harms. Thus, it proposes some major measures to realize publishing information standardization , and suggests several responsibilities that should be born by all the units in the publishing industry chain.The whole thesis is composed of several parts as follows:ForewordBriefly introducing the background of publishing information standardization, with relevant achievements both at home and abroad, summarizing the content, significance and methord of research.The main text includes four chapters1. The main content of publishing information standardization.The thesis has made a study on the concepts of standard, standardization and the publishing information standardization. Pointed that the standardization of publishing information includes the formulation and implementation of standardization of publishing products and circulation information. And enumerate the main content and current relevant standards of publishing products and circulation information.2. The current situation and problems of publishing information standardization construction.By the questionnaire survey of several typical publishing enterprises, I got a better understanding of the current situation of Chinese publishing information standardization. The lack of exclusiveness of ISBN, the informality of CIP data, the chaos of publishing category mechanism and the lack of general mechanical reading format of information exchange are the major problems, they block the information share of publishing enterprises, waste human resource, and bring about lots of troubles to the daily work of enterprises.3. Major measures to current establishment of publishing information standardization.Aiming at major problems in publishing information standardization, this part proposed main measures to unify publishing information standard. I.e. establishing national book in print database to standardize publishing product information, affirming information exchanging standard and standardizing publishing product circulation information. This part also introduces the advanced ONIX standard from overseas, and raises the points that our publishing industry can learn from.4. Responsibilities of all the publishing units in the establishment publishing information standardization.This thesis holds that the publishing information standardization is a fundamental project that involves all the publishing industry, it needs the concerted efforts by the government, publishing companies, book wholesale and retail salesmen and industry software companies. This part elaborate different effects and responsibilities of each kind of organization in publishing industry during the construction of publishing information standardization.