6. Building out your Editorial Data

Now that you have created your Editorial project, a wide range of tabs will become available to you on the project record. The Editorial module allows you to begin building data regarding your titles' contributors, subject, chapters and so on, with these tabs providing a place for this information to be stored and updated as you take a title through the Editorial process. This means that when you eventually come to transfer the project to Title Manager, you won't have to re-enter all of this data for your title record, as much of this information which automatically copy over during the transfer. 

This article will provide a brief overview of the tabs you can use to start building out your metadata: 

Contacts Tab 

This is where you can keep a record of all of the people involved in your editorial process. The information here can be organised into four different tabs: Contributors, Editors, Referees and References. 

The list of available contacts to add in these tabs comes from the Contacts page within General Admin. 

You also have the option to add corporate contributors to the Contributors sub-tab, which will have been entered in Organisation Admin.

N.B. The contacts added in each of these tabs will then populate the assignee's in the 'Active Tasks' section of the Editorial Schedule tab. 

The Subject Tab 

The Subject tab is where you can start to categorise your title, adding it to standard industry categories, as well as including information on any illustrations included in the project.

Here, you can fill out information about Illustrations, your project's target Audience, as well as start building out Thema and BISAC codes as and when your project is ready for them. All of this information will be copied over to the Title Manager module when you export this record out of Editorial.

Chapters Tab 

This tab is particularly useful for projects that contain chapters written by multiple contributors. Here, you can make a record of each individual chapter, as well as the associated contributor information, number of pages and so on. 

If you intend for your project's chapters to each be available individually, you can also start building out keywords and link the necessary DOI's in this tab.

The Related Tab 

Here, you can assign titles from your Book List that are comparable to the project you're currently working on. The comparability can be in terms of subject, target market, particular production features, or any aspect of works that you may want to refer to whilst working on your editorial project.

It is important to note that information in this tab does not get copied across to the Related tab within Title Manager. This is because the Title Manager tab is intended for communicating information about specific product relationships via Onix, whereas the Editorial tab is much less prescriptive and can be used in a way that best suits your Editorial process.

Now that you have started filling out information about your project, we can move on to managing the tasks within your Editorial project.