Detailed metadata

Your editorial colleagues use the Metadata page to store all the metadata. For any work, go to Work › Metadata. All this page will be of interest, but particular areas of note are the following. Use the filter at the top of the metadata page to filter the page to only show each of the following regions.

• Publication › Identifiers. This contains the ISBN-13s, the DOIs and also the title and subtitle. Note that there is an option for the title and subtitle to be different for each product, as opposed to the parent work, so you can see if there are any variations here. This region also contains a link to a 1200dpi png version of the barcode which has been tested to scan at Gardners, IPS UK, Waterstones’ hub, Amazon goods-in and other parts of the supply chain. Click on the copy icon in the barcodes column, and choose your barcode. Here is an example of a barcode generated from Consonance.
• Publishing › Publication › Publisher – this shows if the work is published in association with another publisher.
• Identity › Series – this shows what series / batches the work might be a part of.
• Pricing – contains all the prices by currency.
• Format › Logisitics – contains dimensions as used by marketing. Update this with finalised thickness and weight once the print is done.
• Format › Extents – contains extent information. Update this with finalised extents once the layout is done.

If the product is an audio book, there is also a region for its extents and durations.

Contract information

There are some useful pieces of production data contained within the contract data that your editorial colleagues enter into Consonance. Of particular interest are manuscript delivery dates and gratis copies.

Marketing material sheet

The marketing material sheet for the product is used by your marketing colleagues and is useful for checking the title, pub dates and other key marketing information. Go to the work in question and click on Data exchange › PDF exports.

Then export the marketing material sheet for the correct product. The PDF opens in your browser.

Production

Production handover dates, production runs, and print on demand arrangements are at Production on every work.

Roles

To see who is responsible for what, go to Work › Project management › Roles.

Briefings

To see any briefings from editorial to production, go to the work then Project management › Briefings. Read more about briefings here.

To-dos

There is one to-do list per work, so production, editorial, rights and so on are all managed via Project management › To-dos. To-do due dates can be made relative to important moments such as Press date and Handover from editorial to production, for a smooth workflow process. For instance, create a to-do where the due date is 1 month before Handover from editorial to production called Production / Check progress with editorial and make the assignee the production manager role. That will prompt you to informally head off any arising issues well before you have an acute problem.

Discussions

Project management › Discussions – very useful for keeping notes about the project out of email, and findable once the project is over.