O'Reilly Namespace for metadata terms in the O'Reilly Product Type Vocabulary
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A computer program.
Software Application
Examples include Word, Excel, grep, bash, and iPhone: TMM 2e App.
Application intended to be run on the Apple iPhone 2.x or 3.x platforms. Frequently used for distributing an Ebook as an iPhone Application.
iPhone Application
Examples include iPhone: TMM 2e App, iPhone: TMM 3.0, iPod: TMM, and iPod: TMM (Censored Edition).
Data Services
Educational Supplement
Supplementary PDFs intended for use in an educational setting.
Examples include Student Workbooks, Practice Exams, and Instructor Guides.
Pre-publication editon of a book accessed through Safari Books Online.
Rough Cut
An Ebook that contains the whole work, available in multiple formats, sold through oreilly.com.
PDF
Examples include Amazon eDocs.
PDF file that contains the whole work. Sold or distributed through PDF-only sales channels.
Research Report Site License
Radar Research Report Site Licenses, sold through oreilly.com
Safari Books Online
A book available through Safari Books Online.
Secondary Safari Books Online
Some products must have two or more Safari product records do to limitations in BVD Safari 5.x. Records other then the primary should have this product type.
Examples include Videos for One-on-One training books.
Safari Videos Online
A video available through Safari Books Online
Mobipocket file that contains the whole work. Distributed through channels other than oreilly.com.
Examples include products sold via Amazon Kindle Store, among others.
IDPF EPUB file that contains the whole work. Distributed through channels other than oreilly.com.
This is a roll up product type. Not every chapter of a book will have a unique product, rather a single IP family will have a single CHAPT product related to it.
Chapter
Single content fragment from a product at the chapter (or chapter-like) level.
Ad sales from online sites.
Online Advertising
Video Content
Video
Examples include videos of conference proceedings, screencasts and interviews.
Booth
Examples include DVDs of conference proceedings. Labeling as "DVD-Video" based on Amazon practices.
DVD with video content as opposed to a DVD-ROM.
DVD
Learning Solutions
Licensing is the ability to reuse a single product.
Examples include a single company reusing a single book, making copies as necessary for employees.
License
Examples include Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition. May have a book, PDF, EBOOK, MOBI, and Safari representation, among others. Representations (Product Types) of an Intellectual Property should also be in the O'Reilly Product Type Vocabulary
Content for which there are many products.
Intellectual Property
Webinar
Examples include presentations, lectures, workshops or seminars that are transmitted over the Web. A webinar can be collaborative and include polling and question & answer sessions to allow full participation between the audience and the presenter
Web Conference
Rights
Rights allow the purchaser to reuse pieces of content in new products.
Up-to-Date
An Up-to-Date packet that updates a previously published product.
Examples include printed matter that is designed to be placed in a binder. This does NOT include PDF updates of the exact same content or errata (physical objects only).
Newsletter
Consulting
Consulting sold on an hourly or project basis.
Examples include work done by the O'Reilly Web 2.0 consulting group.
Metadata for a book that is not distributable.
Print NonDistributable
A phsyical book that is bound and sold.
Print
A number of works grouped on CD-ROMs.
Set
Microsoft Press Set
Kit
Microsoft Press Kit
Merchandise
Examples include hats, t-shirts, and mugs.
Magazine
Describes a subscription to this magazine.
Print Advertising
Ad sales from printed material.
Promotional Material
Materials that need inventory but are distributed for free.
Downloadable
Video with chapters that can be downloaded only.
Streaming
Video with chapters that can be embedded only. The primary example as of this writing is the Lost ActionScript Weekend.
Streaming, Downloadable
Video with chapters that can be downloaded or embedded. The primary example as of this writing is the Missing Manual Videos.
Event
In person event.
Examples include "Devloper Days", workshops and in person training.
Application intended to be run under Google's Android OS on Open Handset Alliance phones.
Android Application
Examples include Android Application Development App.
Online Course Offered by O'Reilly School of Technology.
School of Technology Online Course
An early release of an Ebook that contains the whole work, available in multiple formats, sold through oreilly.com.
Web Application sold through oreilly.com.
Shippable, non book, non royalty bearing products.