Re: E-ISSN?

First off -- thank you to Dan & Owen for pointing me to the ISSN-L download
page. I was unaware this was available, and have a need for it.

The use case that I see for the ISSN-L is as data for deduplication
algorithms. I find it helpful to know that I have an ISSN (or other ID)
designed to link together multiple manifestations, which is the one
argument I see in favor of a separate ISSN-L property. It would also work
to just poll all ISSN's when trying to identify a match between two (or
more) records, but I wonder if there's value in having a home for "linking"
type identifiers. Another example that comes to mind is OCLCs GLIMIR ids,
which seem to have something in common with ISSN-L's.

-Corey


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Owen Stephens <owen@ostephens.com> wrote:

>
> On 29 Nov 2013, at 15:12, Dan Scott <denials@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your interest in this discussion! I have edited the description
> of the proposed Periodical "issn" property at
> http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Periodical#Thing_.3E_CreativeWork_.3E_Collection_.3E_Periodicalto reflect the repeatability of the property if one wishes to reflect
> different editions, with an example of format as the most likely reason for
> adding multiple "issn" properties..
>
>
> Sounds good to me
>
>
> If the ISSN-L is currently rarely displayed, then perhaps we should simply
> be silent about it in the current Periodical proposal rather than minting a
> separate "issn-l" property at this time. That said, I don't think there
> would be significant harm caused if someone did end up using the "issn"
> property to identify an ISSN-L, given that it would be likely to be one of
> several "issn" properties in that case.
>
>
> Not just 'likely' - but should always be one of the existing ISSN
> properties.
> Sounds reasonable to not worry about having a property for it at the moment
>
> Owen
>
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>
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