There will be - VIAF. We're working with OCLC, IFRRO, CISAC, British Library, Bibliotheque Nationale, and several other organizations - the data itself is housed in VIAF and is publicly available. I'll have a look at the links you provided - thank you so much! On Sep 7, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com<mailto:ehs@pobox.com>> wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Dawson, Laura <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com<mailto:Laura.Dawson@bowker.com>> wrote: I just realized this as I tried to insert the ISNI into this entry. itemid="0000 0001 2103 2683", but there needs to be a way to refer that number back to the identifier scheme that says "this is an ISNI" Hopefully someday there will be URLs for each ISNI. But until then, if ISNIs are important to you (which I imagine they are given your Bowker address) I'd probably look into registering [2] a URN namespace so you could use itemid="urn:isni:0000000121032683". If you need help doing this I would be interested. The IETF URN discussion list [3] would be a good place to coordinate it. //Ed [1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces/urn-namespaces.xml [2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3406 [3] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/urn Laura Dawson Product Manager, Identifiers Bowker 908-219-0082 917-770-6641 laura.dawson@bowker.com<mailto:laura.dawson@bowker.com>
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