Library Cataloging
Identifiers and Identification Systems: An Informational Look at Policies and Roles from a Library Perspective by Giuseppe Vitiello appears in D-Lib Magazine January 2004, v. 10, no. 1.
- Information Standards Quarterly
The Summer 2011 issue of NISO?s Information Standards Quarterly magazine is now available. ISNI: A new system for name identification by Janifer Gatenby and Andrew MacEwan ORCID: Unique Identifiers for Authors and Contributors by Martin Fenner The Names...
- Digital Identifiers
Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers by Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward and Kerry Blinco appears in the latest Ariadne.Discussion of digital identifiers, and persistent identifiers in particular, has often been confused by differences in underlying assumptions...
- Institutional Identifier For Serials
From the Serials e-News, NASIG Edition comes this description of the Journals Supply ChainThe British Library, HighWire Press, Ringgold Inc., Swets Information Services B.V. and HighWire-affiliated publishers have announced a pilot initiative, Journal...
- Issn
ISSN and the U.S. Postal Service has been revised. Something I never knew about the use of the ISSN.In 1977 the United States Postal Service printed a notice in the Federal Register proposing that publications mailed at what were then called second class...
- Oai
The Open Archives Initiative has released a white paper on rights management.The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has become an important foundation for interoperability among networked information systems. It is widely...
Library Cataloging
Identifiers
Identifiers and Identification Systems: An Informational Look at Policies and Roles from a Library Perspective by Giuseppe Vitiello appears in D-Lib Magazine January 2004, v. 10, no. 1.
Over the last decade, ISs have increased not only in number but also in importance. ISs are now a significant element of any information policy in so far as they are instrumental to, and the facilitator of, bibliographic control, search and retrieval, resource discovery, information management and rights management.
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If the ISSN is to become fully operative in the networked environment by becoming actionable, persistent and interoperable, its overhaul must become a priority. And if the library community wishes to have the dominant role in the standardisation of identification systems and networked information processes, it needs to become more active in those realms.
- Information Standards Quarterly
The Summer 2011 issue of NISO?s Information Standards Quarterly magazine is now available. ISNI: A new system for name identification by Janifer Gatenby and Andrew MacEwan ORCID: Unique Identifiers for Authors and Contributors by Martin Fenner The Names...
- Digital Identifiers
Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers by Nick Nicholas, Nigel Ward and Kerry Blinco appears in the latest Ariadne.Discussion of digital identifiers, and persistent identifiers in particular, has often been confused by differences in underlying assumptions...
- Institutional Identifier For Serials
From the Serials e-News, NASIG Edition comes this description of the Journals Supply ChainThe British Library, HighWire Press, Ringgold Inc., Swets Information Services B.V. and HighWire-affiliated publishers have announced a pilot initiative, Journal...
- Issn
ISSN and the U.S. Postal Service has been revised. Something I never knew about the use of the ISSN.In 1977 the United States Postal Service printed a notice in the Federal Register proposing that publications mailed at what were then called second class...
- Oai
The Open Archives Initiative has released a white paper on rights management.The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) has become an important foundation for interoperability among networked information systems. It is widely...