Identifiers and identification systems. An informational look at policies and roles from a library perspective

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Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Vitiello, Giuseppe ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.1045/january2004-vitiello     Document Type: Article

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1. On these issues see: Ghislaine Chartron - Jean-Michel Salaün. "La reconstruction de l'économie politique des publications scientifiques." Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France, 45 (2000), n. 2, p. 32-42 and Ghislaine Chartron. Les chercheurs et la documentation numérique: nouveaux services et usages. Paris: Electre - Cercle de la Librairie, 2002.
2. On these issues see: Ghislaine Chartron-Jean-Michel Salaün. "La reconstruction de l'économie politique des publications scientifiques." Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France, 45 (2000), n. 2, p. 32-42 and Ghislaine Chartron. Les chercheurs et la documentation numérique: nouveaux services et usages. Paris: Electre - Cercle de la Librairie, 2002.
3. Quoted from Amy Brand - Frank Daly - Barbara Meyers. Metadata demystified. NISO press - Sheridan Press, (July 2003), p.4 〈http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Metadata_Demystified.pdf〉 (all links were last seen on December 24, 2003).
4. On identifiers see Amy Brand - Frank Daly - Barbara Meyers, op. cit. A thorough and recent review is mEDRA. Multilingual European DOI Registration Agency. Media-related identification and metadata standards. An EDItEUR Survey, on behalf of mEDRA (29 November 2002) available in 〈http://dx.doi.org/10.1392/metadata_standards〉. See also Giuseppe Vitiello. "L'identificazione degli identificatori." Biblioteche oggi (in press); Juha Hakala. "Principles of identification: European perspectives." In Mauro Guerrini - Stefano Gambari - Lucia Sardo (a cura di). Proceedings International Conference Electronic Resources: Definition, Selection and Cataloguing, Rome (26 March 2001). 〈http://w3.uniroma1.it/ssab/er/relazioni/hakala_eng.pdf〉 and Élisabeth Giuliani "Les enjeux de la normalisation à l'heure du développement de l'information 'dématérialisée'." Revue Solaris, 1999 (6), in Normes et documents numériques: quels changements?, eds. Ghislaine Chartron et Jean-Max Noyer, 〈http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/DoIS/data/Articles/juljuljeoy:1999:i:6:p:9740. html〉.
5. On identifiers see Amy Brand - Frank Daly - Barbara Meyers, op. cit. A thorough and recent review is mEDRA. Multilingual European DOI Registration Agency. Media-related identification and metadata standards. An EDItEUR Survey, on behalf of mEDRA (29 November 2002) available in 〈http://dx.doi.org/10.1392/metadata_standards〉. See also Giuseppe Vitiello. "L'identificazione degli identificatori." Biblioteche oggi (in press); Juha Hakala. "Principles of identification: European perspectives." In Mauro Guerrini - Stefano Gambari - Lucia Sardo (a cura di). Proceedings International Conference Electronic Resources: Definition, Selection and Cataloguing, Rome (26 March 2001). 〈http://w3.uniroma1.it/ssab/er/relazioni/hakala_eng.pdf〉 and Élisabeth Giuliani "Les enjeux de la normalisation à l'heure du développement de l'information 'dématérialisée'." Revue Solaris, 1999 (6), in Normes et documents numériques: quels changements?, eds. Ghislaine Chartron et Jean-Max Noyer, 〈http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/DoIS/data/Articles/juljuljeoy:1999:i:6:p:9740. html〉.
6. On identifiers see Amy Brand - Frank Daly - Barbara Meyers, op. cit. A thorough and recent review is mEDRA. Multilingual European DOI Registration Agency. Media-related identification and metadata standards. An EDItEUR Survey, on behalf of mEDRA (29 November 2002) available in 〈http://dx.doi.org/10.1392/metadata_standards〉. See also Giuseppe Vitiello. "L'identificazione degli identificatori." Biblioteche oggi (in press); Juha Hakala. "Principles of identification: European perspectives." In Mauro Guerrini - Stefano Gambari - Lucia Sardo (a cura di). Proceedings International Conference Electronic Resources: Definition, Selection and Cataloguing, Rome (26 March 2001). 〈http://w3.uniroma1.it/ssab/er/relazioni/hakala_eng.pdf〉 and Élisabeth Giuliani "Les enjeux de la normalisation à l'heure du développement de l'information 'dématérialisée'." Revue Solaris, 1999 (6), in Normes et documents numériques: quels changements?, eds. Ghislaine Chartron et Jean-Max Noyer, 〈http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/DoIS/data/Articles/juljuljeoy:1999:i:6:p:9740. html〉.
7. On identifiers see Amy Brand - Frank Daly - Barbara Meyers, op. cit. A thorough and recent review is mEDRA. Multilingual European DOI Registration Agency. Media-related identification and metadata standards. An EDItEUR Survey, on behalf of mEDRA (29 November 2002) available in 〈http://dx.doi.org/10.1392/metadata_standards〉. See also Giuseppe Vitiello. "L'identificazione degli identificatori." Biblioteche oggi (in press); Juha Hakala. "Principles of identification: European perspectives." In Mauro Guerrini - Stefano Gambari - Lucia Sardo (a cura di). Proceedings International Conference Electronic Resources: Definition, Selection and Cataloguing, Rome (26 March 2001). 〈http://w3.uniroma1.it/ssab/er/relazioni/hakala_eng.pdf〉 and Élisabeth Giuliani "Les enjeux de la normalisation à l'heure du développement de l'information 'dématérialisée'." Revue Solaris, 1999 (6), in Normes et documents numériques: quels changements?, eds. Ghislaine Chartron et Jean-Max Noyer, 〈http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/DoIS/data/Articles/juljuljeoy:1999:i:6:p:9740. html〉.
8. On identifiers see Amy Brand - Frank Daly - Barbara Meyers, op. cit. A thorough and recent review is mEDRA. Multilingual European DOI Registration Agency. Media-related identification and metadata standards. An EDItEUR Survey, on behalf of mEDRA (29 November 2002) available in 〈http://dx.doi.org/10.1392/metadata_standards〉. See also Giuseppe Vitiello. "L'identificazione degli identificatori." Biblioteche oggi (in press); Juha Hakala. "Principles of identification: European perspectives." In Mauro Guerrini - Stefano Gambari - Lucia Sardo (a cura di). Proceedings International Conference Electronic Resources: Definition, Selection and Cataloguing, Rome (26 March 2001). 〈http://w3.uniroma1.it/ssab/er/relazioni/hakala_eng.pdf〉 and Élisabeth Giuliani "Les enjeux de la normalisation à l'heure du développement de l'information 'dématérialisée'." Revue Solaris, 1999 (6), in Normes et documents numériques: quels changements?, eds. Ghislaine Chartron et Jean-Max Noyer, 〈http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/DoIS/data/Articles/juljuljeoy:1999:i:6:p:9740. html〉.
9. On identifiers see Amy Brand - Frank Daly - Barbara Meyers, op. cit. A thorough and recent review is mEDRA. Multilingual European DOI Registration Agency. Media-related identification and metadata standards. An EDItEUR Survey, on behalf of mEDRA (29 November 2002) available in 〈http://dx.doi.org/10.1392/metadata_standards〉. See also Giuseppe Vitiello. "L'identificazione degli identificatori." Biblioteche oggi (in press); Juha Hakala. "Principles of identification: European perspectives." In Mauro Guerrini - Stefano Gambari - Lucia Sardo (a cura di). Proceedings International Conference Electronic Resources: Definition, Selection and Cataloguing, Rome (26 March 2001). 〈http://w3.uniroma1.it/ssab/er/relazioni/hakala_eng.pdf〉 and Élisabeth Giuliani "Les enjeux de la normalisation à l'heure du développement de l'information 'dématérialisée'." Revue Solaris, 1999 (6), in Normes et documents numériques: quels changements?, eds. Ghislaine Chartron et Jean-Max Noyer, 〈http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/DoIS/data/Articles/juljuljeoy:1999:i:6:p:9740. html〉.
10. International Standard Book Number (ISBN) home page, 〈http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp〉.
11. International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) home page, 〈http://www.issn.org:8080/pub〉.
12. ISRC page at the IFPI web site, 〈http://www.ifpi.org/isrc〉.
13. Serial Item and Contribution Identification Standard (SICI) home page, 〈http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SICI/〉.
14. The International Standard Music Number (ISMN) Agency home page, 〈http://www.ismn-international.org〉.
15. See Digital Object Identifier (DOI) home page, 〈http://www.doi.org〉 and Norman Paskin. "DOI: A 2003 Progress Report," D-Lib Magazine, June 2003, 9(6) 〈doi:10.1045/june2003-paskin〉. DOI numbering mechanism follows a syntax standardised as ANSI/NISO Z39.84-2000. See also the DOI Handbook, Appendix 1, 〈http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/toc.html#app1〉.
16. See Digital Object Identifier (DOI) home page, 〈http://www.doi.org〉 and Norman Paskin. "DOI: A 2003 Progress Report," D-Lib Magazine, June 2003, 9(6) 〈doi:10.1045/june2003-paskin〉. DOI numbering mechanism follows a syntax standardised as ANSI/NISO Z39.84-2000. See also the DOI Handbook, Appendix 1, 〈http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/toc.html#app1〉.
17. Handle System® home page, 〈http://www.handle.net〉.
18. CrossRef home page, 〈http://www.crossref.org〉. Apart from CrossRef, the following are DOI agencies: Content Direction Inc., applying the DOI system to books, periodicals, photographic pictures, audiovisual and sound documents, e-learning and registration included in medical databases; Enpia Systems Ltd., for the objects in Korean language; Learning Objects Network, Inc. supporting the Department of Defense's Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL); Copyright Agency Ltd, for licences provided to authors, journalists, artists, photographs, and publishers of books, periodicals and newspapers; TSO (The Stationery Office, the publisher of official publications in the UK and Ireland), which supplies digital identifiers to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; and mEDRA, a consortium of European firms led by AIE (the Italian Publishers' Association). The full list of registration agencies may be found at 〈http://www.doi.org/registration_agencies.html〉.
19. International Standard Musical Work Code (ISWC) home page, 〈http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/iswc.htm〉.
20. International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) home page, 〈http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/isan.htm〉.
21. Godfrey Rust. "Metadata: The Right Approach. An Integrated Model for Descriptive and Rights Metadata in E-commerce." D-Lib Magazine, July/August 1998, 〈doi:10.1045/july98-rust〉.
22. IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. Final Report. Approved by the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Cataloguing. München: K. G. Saur 1998 (in 〈http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.pdf〉).
23. Ibidem.
24. On this issue, see Marian Shemberg. "The Role of the ISSN in the Electronic Linking Environment." Serials Review, 29(2), (Summer 2003), p. 89-96, and the reply: Regina Romano Reynolds - Françoise Pellé. Comments on "The Role of the ISSN in the Electronic Linking Environment", p. 97-99 (same issue).
25. On this issue, see Marian Shemberg. "The Role of the ISSN in the Electronic Linking Environment." Serials Review, 29(2), (Summer 2003), p. 89-96, and the reply: Regina Romano Reynolds - Françoise Pellé. Comments on "The Role of the ISSN in the Electronic Linking Environment", p. 97-99 (same issue).
26. Jean-Claude Guédon. In Oldenburg's Long Shadow: Librarians, Research Scientists, Publishers, and the Control of Scientific Publishing (May 2001) 〈http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/138/guedon.html〉.
27. DOI news release, 10 November 2003 - National Library participation in DOI Foundation extends to 41 countries through CENL, 〈http://www.doi.org/news/031120CENLnews.pdf〉.
28. Open Archives Intiative home page, 〈http://www.openarchives.org/〉.
29. The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, 〈http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html〉.
30. Open Society Institute. A Guide to Institutional Repository Software, prepared by Raym Crow, October 2003, 〈http://www.soros.org/openaccess/pdf/OSI_Guide_to_Institutional_ Repository_Software_v1.pdf〉.
31. C. Lynch, C. Preston & R. Daniel. Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names RFC2288. Available at 〈http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2288.txt〉.
32. The CARMEN project home page, 〈http://www.ddb.de/professionell/carmen_aps_e.htm〉. The identifier applied within the CARMEN project was NBN (National Bibliographic Number), used for legal deposit purposes. On URN activities in Germany see the specific website: 〈http://www.persistent-identifier.de/?link=311&lang=en〉.
33. See the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, 〈http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html〉, and also see, Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach. "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 1: Frameworks for Linking," D-Lib Magazine, April 1999, 5(4), 〈doi:10.1045/april99-van_de_sompel-pt1〉; "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 2: SFX, a Generic Linking Solution," D-Lib Magazine, April 1999, 5(4), 〈doi:10.1045/april99-van_de_sompel-pt2〉; "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 3: Generalizing the SFX solution in the "SFX@Ghent & SFX@LANL" experiment," D-Lib Magazine, October 1999, 5(10), 〈doi:10.1045/october99-van_de_sompel〉.
34. See the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, 〈http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html〉, and also see, Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach. "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 1: Frameworks for Linking," D-Lib Magazine, April 1999, 5(4), 〈doi:10.1045/april99-van_de_sompel-pt1〉; "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 2: SFX, a Generic Linking Solution," D-Lib Magazine, April 1999, 5(4), 〈doi:10.1045/april99-van_de_sompel-pt2〉; "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 3: Generalizing the SFX solution in the "SFX@Ghent & SFX@LANL" experiment," D-Lib Magazine, October 1999, 5(10), 〈doi:10.1045/october99-van_de_sompel〉.
35. See the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, 〈http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html〉, and also see, Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach. "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 1: Frameworks for Linking," D-Lib Magazine, April 1999, 5(4), 〈doi:10.1045/april99-van_de_sompel-pt1〉; "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 2: SFX, a Generic Linking Solution," D-Lib Magazine, April 1999, 5(4), 〈doi:10.1045/april99-van_de_sompel-pt2〉; "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 3: Generalizing the SFX solution in the "SFX@Ghent & SFX@LANL" experiment," D-Lib Magazine, October 1999, 5(10), 〈doi:10.1045/october99-van_de_sompel〉.
36. See the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, 〈http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html〉, and also see, Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach. "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 1: Frameworks for Linking," D-Lib Magazine, April 1999, 5(4), 〈doi:10.1045/april99-van_de_sompel-pt1〉; "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 2: SFX, a Generic Linking Solution," D-Lib Magazine, April 1999, 5(4), 〈doi:10.1045/april99-van_de_sompel-pt2〉; "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 3: Generalizing the SFX solution in the "SFX@Ghent & SFX@LANL" experiment," D-Lib Magazine, October 1999, 5(10), 〈doi:10.1045/october99-van_de_sompel〉.
37. See, DOI home page, 〈http://www.doi.org〉, and Oren Beit-Arie et alia. "Linking to the Appropriate Copy. Report of a DOI-Based Prototype," D-Lib Magazine, September 2001, 7(9), 〈doi:10.1045/september2001-caplan〉.
38. See, DOI home page, 〈http://www.doi.org〉, and Oren Beit-Arie et alia. "Linking to the Appropriate Copy. Report of a DOI-Based Prototype," D-Lib Magazine, September 2001, 7(9), 〈doi:10.1045/september2001-caplan〉.
39. mEDRA. Multilingual European DOI Registration Agency. Media-related identification and metadata standards. op.cit.
40. "Coopetition", a combination of the words cooperation and competition, is an economic term currently being used especially in what was once called the "new economy".
41. Norman Paskin. "DOI. A 2003 Progress Report" cit.
42. Ibidem.
43. Jean Hirons et al. Revising AACR2 to Accommodate Seriality. Report to the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR, April 1999, 〈http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/docs/ser-rep.pdf〉. The Group categorized three kinds of publications: "static" publications, including resources that are complete as first issued (e.g., books); resources for which additional information is supplied in a succession of discrete parts (serials); and finally, "dynamic" publications, i.e., those for which the updates are integrated into the resource and do not remain discrete.
44. Françoise Pellé. "ISSN: An Ongoing Identifier in a Changing World." Serials Librarian, 41(3-4), (2002), p. 31-42; S. Rozenfeld. Using The ISSN (International Serial Standard Number) as URN (Uniform Resource Names) within an ISSN-URN Namespace). RFC3044. Available at 〈ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3044.txt〉.
45. Françoise Pellé. "ISSN: An Ongoing Identifier in a Changing World." Serials Librarian, 41(3-4), (2002), p. 31-42; S. Rozenfeld. Using The ISSN (International Serial Standard Number) as URN (Uniform Resource Names) within an ISSN-URN Namespace). RFC3044. Available at 〈ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3044.txt〉.
46. Juha Hakala. "Linking Articles and Bibliographic Records with Uniform Resource Names." Serials Librarian, 41(3-4), p. 193-199; Juha Hakala. "Using Serial Item and Contribution Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names," (draft-ietf-hakala-sici-01.txt). Available at 〈http://lists.research.netsol.com/pipermail/urn-nid/2002-July/000305. html〉.
47. Juha Hakala. "Linking Articles and Bibliographic Records with Uniform Resource Names." Serials Librarian, 41(3-4), p. 193-199; Juha Hakala. "Using Serial Item and Contribution Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names," (draft-ietf-hakala-sici-01.txt). Available at 〈http://lists.research.netsol.com/pipermail/urn-nid/2002-July/000305. html〉.
48. Stefan Rankema. "Goodbye ISSN, Hello DOI?" In AIB. Associazione Italiana Biblioteche. XLV Congresso nazionale AIB (Roma, 16-19 maggio 1999). 〈http://www.aib.it/aib/congr/co99_absrankema.htm〉.