Re: Proposal to include ISNI

Well, looking around at isni.org a bit, I have to say that they are doing a 
rather poor job of providing stable unique identifiers for people, that is 
unless Ian Horrocks is really triplets, all with the same first name.  Of 
course, as a researcher with a globally-unique name, I don't need to have an ISNI.

The fact that schema.org has a field for ISBN that doesn't seem to be any bar 
for using Google Books ISBN URLs as sameAs values for published works, nor 
even for promoting such use.  Of course, it might be better to use different 
Google Books URLs as sameAs values for books, as books and editions of books 
are different.

peter


On 11/20/2013 02:21 PM, Martin Hepp wrote:
> The difference is that in the case of ISNI, the canonical URI schema is provided by the body maintaining the ISNI identifiers.
> For ISBNs, there is no authoritative URI pattern available, despite the fact that there exist several services that return representations for (typically a subset of) ISBNs.
>
> Second, there has been a history of not deprecating / removing existing elements from schema.org, so even if your argument was right, the case for ISBN would be different, since it already exists in schema.org.
>
> Martin
>
> On Nov 20, 2013, at 11:15 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>
>> Hmm.
>>
>> What then is
>>
>> http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN*{ISBN Number}
>>
>> This seems to be as good as, for example, Freebase URLs.
>>
>> peter
>>
>> *
>> On 11/20/2013 01:46 PM, Martin Hepp wrote:
>>> Hi Laura,
>> [...]
>>> The difference to ISBN is that for ISBN codes, there is no canonical URI schema defined (at least to my knowledge).
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>
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