- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 10:48:07 -0500
- To: Shuh Barbara <barbara.shuh@nlc-bnc.ca>
- Cc: "IPIG List (E-mail)" <ipig@tlcdelivers.com>, "ZIG List (E-mail)" <www-zig@w3.org>, "'ncip@tlcdelivers.com'" <ncip@tlcdelivers.com>
* Shuh Barbara <barbara.shuh@nlc-bnc.ca> [2004-03-04 10:06-0500] > FYI > I'm passing on this background information to give protocol implementors a > heads-up on introduction of 13-digit ISBN, in case it has an impact on your > applications. Thanks for this. I wonder if I could take this opportunity to ask whether the situation regarding ISBN-recycling could be clarified, perhaps by stating explicitly that 13-digit ISBNs can only ever denote a single work (ie. declare re-use to be an error per the new spec). (This question has come up a few times in the context of RDF data merging of descriptions of ISBN-identified material. Implementors have been unsure as to whether it is reasonable to merge descriptions when they see they same URI, since it is said that ISBNs have on frequent occasion been re-assigned/re-cycles). Thanks for any advice, Dan
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