Digital platform of the book industry

Abstract

The article considers the preconditions and possibilities of creating the Digital Platform of the Book Industry (DPBI) on the basis of the databases of the Book Chamber of Ukraine, formed during the years of independence, given the ecosystem of information interaction in the publishing industry. It is emphasized that the digitalization of many processes in the publishing business, the COVID-19 pandemic and related quarantine restrictions have made significant adjustments to the technological structure of the industry, accelerating the process of book internetization. These factors are the main prerequisites for building a single information platform that unites publishers, libraries and users, providing them with quality information content and modern analytical services. The branch tools which will form a basis of DPBI are considered. These are numerous resources of the Book Chamber of Ukraine, covering electronic catalogs: books, music, art, cartographic and electronic publications; UDC information arrays and UDC and BBK comparison tables; databases: retrospective bibliography, publishers, ISBN and ISMN agencies, print statistics and others. The urgent problems that hinder the creation of the DPBI, in particular the modernization of the local computer network of the Book Chamber of Ukraine, the purchase of modern software, as well as a number of organizational issues.