SCEA AWARD FOR BDS

BDS retained accreditation as a supplier of excellence under the BIC SCEA scheme.

The award covers a diverse range of book industry sectors including publishers, booksellers, printers, distributors, wholesalers and service providers. In all, 27 organisations hold BIC SCEA accreditation. These include Gardners, Harper Collins Publishers, Ingram Publisher Services UK, Macmillan Distribution, Pan Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Batch and Sage Publishing.

The award stands alongside BDS’s BIC Technology Excellence in Libraries Award where BDS holds Gold status.

Application to BIC SCEA accreditation is free and open to BIC members and non-members. The scope of the award covers BIC’s areas of interest and activity across the supply chain. This includes the provision of product metadata using ONIX through to the efficient management of returns and reporting of sales.

Environmental concerns addressed

The scheme enables book industry organisations to demonstrate the efficiency of their supply chains for both physical and digital products. Thus, they gain recognition with trading partners and the book industry for business efficiency, customer service, environmental concern and innovation. It aims to reward companies for their investment in automation and innovative solutions to the supply chain issues they face.

“We are delighted to retain BIC SCEA accreditation. We have held it since the awards were first introduced,” says Keith Walters, Trade Data Manager at BDS. “Furthermore, today’s Awards reflect changing developments and environmental concerns around supply chain management. It is therefore particularly encouraging that the SCEA panel place BDS in the select few award winners.”

Organisations that wish to apply for accreditation can find out more about the SCEA Accreditation Scheme at https://bic.org.uk/resources/accreditations-overview/supply-chain-excellence-award/

BDS SPONSORS MDG ‘23

BDS will be Gold Sponsor for the forthcoming Metadata Discovery Group (MDG) Conference. The event takes place on the 6th to 8th of September, 2023 at IET Birmingham: Austin Court.

Two full days of presentations and discussion will explore all aspects of metadata and discovery. This includes traditional cataloguing in libraries and archives, metadata management, research data management and digital preservation, digital libraries, and beyond.

The third day will host the UK Committee on RDA (UKCoR) for discussion covering developments relating to RDA. The UK Committee on RDA (UKCoR) is chaired by Jenny Wright, Chief Metadata Officer at BDS.

Re-Discovery

The conference will see a return to an in-person conference after the previous years’ virtual events. The MDG website announces:

“As we Re-vitalise the Metadata & Discovery Group in 2023, we hope to Re-energise our communities of practice, Re-establish our principles, and Re-imagine the future of description/metadata.

To that end, this year’s MDG Conference aims to explore the topic of “Re-Discovery” as discovery is at the heart of the information world and the vital purpose of all metadata work.”

The MDG encourages submissions for papers from library professionals.

“The long-standing relationship BDS has with the Metadata Discovery Group remains as strong as ever,” says Lesley Whyte. “My colleague, Jenny Wright, will be at the conference and we look forward to reporting on the event in a future issue of BDSlife.”