: Re: What are the most appropriate metadata to manage and search ebooks On an online platform for ebooks that you would use to search, sort, and save online entity of your books (like goodreads,

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I'm referring to metadata available in EPUB books as an example. Websites distributing ebooks often read ebook metadata to be used for searching and display.

There are original publish dates, and digital publish dates. So when a
book is originally published in 1804, then Gutenberg digitizes it in
2014, you have 2 different dates. Most users will want to search on the original publish date, not the digitized date.
There can be multiple author
fields in an EPUB too, along with multiple SUBJECT fields. Many
non-fiction books will have multiple subjects. So a history book on
WW2 might have these subjects: WW2, World War 2, history, war, Germany, America, Britain.
There is also a book description field.
There is also a copyright field which can be a whole paragraph of the type of copyright this book is under, if any.

It's important to include all authors because major book sellers, and library catalogs, read the EPUB metadata. I've seen studies with 20+ authors. If the study is in an EPUB and only author A is in the EPUB metadata, the study will not show up in search results if I search for author B.

The same applies to subjects. Library catalogs often have books under multiple but related subjects. See WW2 example above.

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