ONIXEDIT User Manual

Generate Subject Headings from codes

As subject heading text is not mandatory, it is perfectly legit to provide only codes for your subjects leaving "Heading text" column empty:


Heading texts


But by adopting this practice, you may reduce the discoverability of your books and eBooks. Indeed, some search engines, bookstores and other online systems will produce better classification/indexation of your titles if you also provide headings.


ONIXEDIT provides a handy tool to do it easily and automatically:


Generate headings


Just open the ONIX file you want to process, select all the titles it contains (CTRL-A) and choose "Generate missing subject Headings from Codes" in the Onix menu. You can also find this option in the contextual menu that appears by right-clicking on the selected titles.