Biographical note

A biographical note about a contributor to the product. (See the <TextContent> composite in Group P.14 for a biographical note covering all contributors to a product in a single text.) Optional, and repeatable to provide parallel biographical notes in multiple languages. The language attribute is optional for a single instance of <BiographicalNote>, but must be included in each instance if <BiographicalNote> is repeated. May occur with a person name or with a corporate name. A biographical note in ONIX should always contain the name of the person or body concerned, and it should always be presented as a piece of continuous text consisting of full sentences. Some recipients of ONIX data feeds will not accept text which has embedded URLs. A contributor website link can be sent using the <Website> composite below.

Format	Variable length text, no suggested maximum length (since there is no suggested length for the text in a <TextContent> composite, where a biographical note can alternatively be sent). XHTML is enabled in this element – see Using XHTML, HTML, XML, JSON within ONIX text fields
ReferenceName	<BiographicalNote>
ShortTag	<b044>
Cardinality	0…n
Example	Umberto Eco, professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, and author of ‘The Name Of The Rose’ and ‘Foucault’s Pendulum’, is one of the world’s bestselling novelists. As well as novels, he also writes children’s books and academic works.