Re: E-ISSN?

On 11/23/13 3:44 PM, Owen Stephens wrote:
> I think the ISSN registry does indeed treat these as the 'ISSN' - so the
> eISSN isn't a different kind of ISSN but just a different label for the
> ISSN applied to an electronic publication.
>
> However there is a lot of common practice that treats the concept of the
> journal 'title' as being something apart from the actual instantiations
> and so groups the print and electronic versions together, thus needing
> to differentiate through the use of the 'e' prefix for one of the ISSNs.
> Two systems I'm involved in (KB+ and GOKb) do this I'm afraid to say,
> and it is common practice in other 'knowledgebases' (SFX, SS360 etc.) as
> well as being pretty much baked into the KBart guidelines
> (http://www.uksg.org/kbart/s5/guidelines/data_field_labels).
>
> The ISSN-L is, as you say, an ISSN used to link things together but as
> far as I understand it the ISSN-L is simple one of the existing ISSNs
> for the title (not necessarily the ISSN for the print version, although
> it commonly is) and is not intended as a separate identifier but simply
> that one of the identifiers plays an additional role - although I'm not
> sure this isn't just messing about with the semantics to be honest, and
> in any case I don't think really helps us.

Here's what the page [1] says:

*****

Do publishers need to indicate when they are using ISSN-L as opposed to 
an ISSN?

Yes, in order for the ISSN-L to work effectively, publishers need to 
clearly indicate when they are using an ISSN-L as opposed to an ISSN.

The ISO standard recommendations for printing and displaying ISSN-L are 
as follows: “the linking ISSN shall be clearly distinguished as such by 
use of the label ISSN-L. In such cases, the label ISSN-L shall be 
written in uppercase and a space shall precede the 8 digits of the 
linking ISSN. Example : ISSN-L 0251-1479”.

*****

It looks like LC has gone through their existing serial file and 
automagically created the ISSN-L subfield in the 022 (these are from old 
journals):

022 	__ |a 0096-5340 |l 0096-5340
022 	__ |a 0006-3541 |l 0006-3541

I can find some usage by searching on "ISSN-L":

"Print edition: ISSN-L 2247 - 9880. Online edition: ISSN 2247 - 9880"

"Editor-in-Chief:Dr. Ecaterina Patrascu
Frequency:Monthly
ISSN 2286-4822
ISSN-L 2286-4822"

So it *is* being used - I was wrong about that.

The question, though, is whether we need an actual property for the 
ISSN-L, or whether we can put this and the eISSN into an ISSN field. And 
if the latter, do we leave/put the "ISSN-L" or "eISSN" in the string 
value for the property?

As I said to Diane, this gets us back to the "non-URI" identifiers 
question. How far do we want to go to accommodate these? What use cases 
exist that would help us decide?

kc

[1] http://www.issn.org/2-22637-What-is-an-ISSN-L.php



>
> To address the questions:
> The concept of the 'eISSN' is useful as long as people continue to
> represent the print and electronic versions as part of the same 'record'
> - and I don't see this changing at the moment
> I'm not confident that we can ignore the ISSN-L - this is a relatively
> recent concept and my instinct is use will grow over the next few years
> - again it is something that has been discussed in both the GOKb and KB+
> projects although no specific use yet I think there will be once we have
> the data available.
>
> Owen
>
>
> Owen Stephens
> Owen Stephens Consulting
> Web: http://www.ostephens.com
> Email: owen@ostephens.com <mailto:owen@ostephens.com>
> Telephone: 0121 288 6936
>
> On 22 Nov 2013, at 23:10, 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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>

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