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mEDRA MdM primarly provides publishers with a tool to create their own organized archive of bibliographical and commercial metadata, referred to both digital and printed items.

A structured and friendly web editor facilitates metadata input.
Metadata are stored within a dedicated database - hosted by mEDRA servers - accessible and editable online by the publishers at any time.

In addition, mEDRA MdM supplies metadata export in XML-ONIX. This bears a number of benefits:

• A significant simplification in ISBN registration process: after entering a limited number of mandatory metadata, it is possible to send the request to your local ISBN Agency at once, avoiding any use of paper forms
• Metadata upload to mEDRA for DOI registration
• In the next release, customisation of metadata export will allow to send XML-ONIX files - containing selected information about publications - to other subjects of the trade chain, as distributors, booksellers, libraries, etc.

• mEDRA MdM provides metadata management for monographs, published either in digital or printed form


• MdM metadata schema is a critical subset of ONIX, the most widespread metadata standard for the description of publishing works (www.editeur.org)


• Archive administration is designed on a double level: at first publishers define their title list, composed by "abstractions", that are catalogue's works in their general sense; afterwards, they assign to each title all its related publications (in different product forms). For instance, starting from La Divina Commedia as a work, it will be possible to manage metadata of its individual versions: hardback, paperback, e-book, Cd-Rom, etc.

• An own private database is reserved to every accounted publisher, who will be enabled to access (by username and password)


• The system has been conceived for remote control: publisher's database is not hosted by his own website, but by servers accessible online


• mEDRA servers are located at Cineca Consortium (www.cineca.it), ensuring the highest performance in machines processing capacity, maintenance and security

• Enrichment of metadata schema (reprints, abstract, table of content, etc.)


• New options in metadata export (complete export, customised export, etc.)


• German language version