Re: E-ISSN?

Yes, I don't think we should *prevent* any identifiers, but in fact 
anything that is in URI form can be added. The problem is (oh, and this 
will sound familiar :-)) which do we add as named properties to the 
schema? So now that takes us back to the identifier proposals [1] [2] 
which we dropped because it made our heads spin.

I'll give you my gut reaction: make a "any ol' identifier" property and 
let people put into it whatever they want, with the hope that in the 
future more will have a URI form. Meanwhile, if you want to use a 
non-URI identifier, ... good luck!

kc


[1] http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Identifier
[2] http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Identifier-2

On 11/23/13 8:42 AM, Diane Hillmann wrote:
> KC et al.:
>
> I suspect that in this time of turmoil, the 'perfect' identifier is even
> more of a holy grail than it used to be. Given that we're not yet at the
> point where best choices can be made (much less enforced), I'd be
> inclined to add any identifier I could find that seems relevant, and let
> the future sort them out. It's hard to know looking ahead what we'll end
> up doing, but I suspect none of our crystal balls are very useful at the
> moment.
>
> Diane
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net
> <mailto:kcoyle@kcoyle.net>> wrote:
>
>     :-) These are those times when a "neutral point of view" just
>     doesn't say it all, does it?
>
>     Thanks, Laura, for your perspective. I'm not at the kitten killing
>     level yet, but I, too, find e-issn to be an aberration -- it's the
>     ISSN-L that makes me want to strangle.
>
>     kc
>
>     On 11/22/13 3:21 PM, LAURA DAWSON wrote:
>
>         The book trade suffers from the occasional reference to eISBN.
>         The ISBN agency tries very hard to stamp those out. I once gave
>         a presentation for NISO called "Every Time You Say eISBN, a
>         Kitten Bleeds."
>
>         With that perspective, I hope the eISSN dies a mangled and
>         horrible death.
>
>             On Nov 22, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net
>             <mailto:kcoyle@kcoyle.net>> wrote:
>
>             One of the examples I added includes the E-ISSN. I have
>             mixed feelings about this, but I suspect it is quite common
>             in metadata. (It seems to me that it should be an ISSN
>             attached to an electronic publication, not a different kind
>             of ISSN... oh well.) There is also the ISSN-L, which
>             fortunately does not seem to be referred to much, so I hope
>             we can ignore it.
>
>             If you haven't run into ISSN-L, it is the ISSN of the print
>             copy, and is presumably used to gather the various formats
>             (E, print, whatever) together. The "L" stands for "linking."
>             From the ISSN agency page:
>
>             ISSN-L 0264-2875
>                          Printed version: Dance research = ISSN 0264-2875
>                          Online version: Dance research (Online) = ISSN
>             1750-0095
>
>             If you know of a growing use of these, please speak up. I
>             haven't run into them, but I'm not watching any serials
>             databases carefully. Also, if E-ISSNs are falling out of
>             use, then we can skip those. Anyone?
>
>             kc
>             --
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>
>     --
>     Karen Coyle
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