Today's Topics: 1. Reminder to provide feedback: Systematic Review of ISO 3297:2007 Information and documentation -- International standard serial number (ISSN) (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 In accordance with ISO policy, an ISO ballot concerning the 5-year review of the ISSN standard, ISO 3297, is open. Jill Emery has requested input to the ALA vote by this Monday, August 29. The voting period ends on September 9. The U.S. ISSN Center and the Library of Congress support opening the standard for revision. The standard was last revised in 2007. The digital world in which the ISSN has become increasingly important has changed dramatically since 2007 and the ISSN standard should be updated to enable it to play a key identification role in the emerging linked data environment. We encourage ALA members to support opening this revision. The ISSN International Centre provided the following information about the revision: ? The ISSN International Centre is the Registration Authority for ISO 3297. ? ISO 3297 was first published in 1975 and last revised in 2007. ? In 2010-2011, the standard came under systematic revision and was confirmed. ? On April 2016, a five-month ballot on systematic revision was launched. The ISSN International Centre considers that a revision of ISO 3297 is now justified for the reasons detailed below: Defining what ?editions? represent in the digital world: The ISSN standard states that ?different ISSN and key titles shall be assigned to the different editions?. It may be useful to define further what to consider a ?different edition? in the context of digital publishing. Revising the list of mandatory and facultative [optional depending on the context] ISSN metadata: Consistency should be ensured with other bibliographic standards. Granularity of ISSN assignment: An ISSN currently identifies a unique title on a specific medium, while the ISSN-L identifies a unique title whatever the medium may be. The creation of a ?meta-ISSN? identifying a same title through history and whatever the title changes may be or the possibility to use the ISSN in the identification of subparts of a serial, e.g. issues, could be further investigated. Use of ISSN and ISSN-L with other identification and linking systems: The relationships between ISSN and other identifiers or the use of ISSN in the linked data environment may come under consideration. The ISSN International Centre hopes that national member bodies will vote for revision/amend in the Systematic Review ballot and include possible issues for consideration in any revision that would follow. Thanks, Regina Regina Romano Reynolds Director, U.S. ISSN Center Head, ISSN Section Library of Congress Washington, DC (202) 707-6379 (voice) (202) 707-6333 (fax) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jill Emery Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 2:36 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [ALCTScentral] Reminder to provide feedback: Systematic Review of ISO 3297:2007 Information and documentation -- International standard serial number (ISSN) Hi All, Currently ALA is voting to confirm this standard. However, if you have feedback or considerations for revising & amending, please let me know that by 29 August. Also, please let me know if you are interested in serving on the working group for this standard. So far, the following points have been made by other voting members: "In the past ten years since the standard was adopted in its current form, there have many changes in the publishing and cataloging communities. We are now in an environment where many communities are moving to present information as linked data. In a linked data world trusted, reliable identifiers are critical and the ISSN potentially can play a key role for the serials community. However, we need to first define the correct levels of granularity at which ISSN should be defined and better clarify what is a serial work. Do we need identifiers for serial ?families? that include title changes, splits and mergers? Do we need identifiers for each particular format in which an electronic serial may be encoded? Does every level need a unique identifier or is there value in going back to an older suggestion of using suffixes along with a base ISSN at a particular level? We also need to be sure that the mandatory descriptive data required for the ISSN is in line with other standards related to serials data, such as DOI, RDA, and ONIX." and "1. The ISSN-L linking identifier introduced in the last revision attempted to address a real need, however while a good idea in principle, has proven to be unwieldy and cumbersome to implement in practice. The requirement that the first media-specific ISSN is designated as the ISSN-L, and the lack of ability to distinguish between an ISSN-L and a media-specific ISSN has made implementation and adoption hard. 2. The ISSN requirement that different media versions of a continuing resource are designated different ISSNs is impossible to apply to digital resources, which have no physical manifestation. Thus, the correct practice for assigning ISSNs to digital continuing resources is unclear. Are different formats of a continuing resource available by the same channel or platform to receive different ISSNs? Are identical manifestations of the same continuing resource available by different channels or platforms (e.g. publisher sites, aggregator sites) to receive the same ISSN? This urgently needs to be clarified. Further, references to publication in formats such a microfiche and CD-ROM are increasingly anachronistic and should be considered for removal of the standard. For these reasons, We believe it is vital to update the ISSN standard to ensure its continued relevance and adoption has more and more use of continuing resources moves online." Please let me know if you need to full standard for further review ASAP. Thanks, Jill -- Jill Emery Collection Development Librarian Portland State University 220H LIBW P O Box 1151 Portland, OR 97207 E:[email protected]<mailto:e%[email protected]> T:503-725-4506 F: 503-725-5799 http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1572-8059 ------------------------------ End of Tsig Digest, Vol 52, Issue 12 ************************************ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
