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Revising the ISSNInvolving stakeholders to adapt a bibliographic standard to its ever-changing environmentOpen conference of the IFLA standing committee “Serials and Other Continuing Resources”IFLA WLIC, Columbus (Ohio), August 15th, 2016
Clément OuryISSN International Centreclement.oury <at> issn.org@ISSN_IC
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Overview of the presentation
- The ISSN system today- A necessary revision of the ISSN standard- Issues to be discussed and future steps
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The ISSN system todayInternational Standard Serial Number
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The universe of continuing resources
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Continuing resourcesSerials
Newspapers
Magazines
Periodicals
Monographic series
Annual reports
Blogs
Ongoing Integrating resourcesWebsites
Databases
Loose-leaf
Especially scholarly resources or resources with editorial content
Dead or Alive!
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The ISSN network today
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A Register to describe them all- ISSN assignment entails
• ISSN number assignment• Construction of the key title (unique in the Register)• Production of the reference bibliographic record
o + Following the evolution of the resource through time
- All records ingested in the ISSN Register• Maintained by the ISSN International Centre• A total of 1,9 million records• Increase of 75,000 records / year: 30% being online resource
- Several access services• ISSN Portal; bulk download of the database, tailored services
such as OAI-PMH…
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Why using ISSN? Or: who’s requesting it?- Publishers
• Management of their own supply chain; notably for barcodes• Promotion of their content; e.g. necessary for DOI registration, indexing
services, DOAJ, etc.- Libraries
• Note: ISSN sometimes assigned as part of legal deposit• Reliable identification of purchased/accessed content • Management of physical/digital collections
- Service providers, digitization agencies…• For the same reasons
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ISO 3297:2007. A necessary revision?The rise of new stakeholders
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A systematic revision of the standard
- ISSN: a standard established in 1975• Within ISO TC46 (information and
documentation) / SC9 (identification and description)
• 4 revisions since 1975- Latest revision: 2007
• Clarification of scope• Creation of ISSN-L
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Print 0362-4331
ISSN-L 0362-4331
Online 1553-8095
CDROM 1542-667X
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New stakeholders- The evolution of publishing industry
• Open access publishing• Social media – altmetrics
- New metadata providers• Publishers, discovery services• Critical role of EDItEUR / ONIX
- New bibliographic models and rules• The FR-something acronyms: FRBR, FRAD, FRSAD, FRBROO, FRBR-LRM• RDA
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New identifiers
- Identifiers: the corner stones of the Web of Data- ISO TC46/SC9 standards: a growing family
• Newcomers: ISTC, DOI, ISNI, ISCI, ISLI• Already existing members – good as new: ISBN, ISMN, ISRC• Some cousins too! E.g. ORCID
- Rethinking the place of ISSN in the identifiers ecosystem
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Issues to be discussedFrom ISSN IC point of view!
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Scope of ISSN assignment- ISSNs for digital publications:
what is a “different edition”?• Influence of ISBN definition of
edition?
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+DRMs…
Online 1553-8095
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Granularity of ISSN assignment
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Online 1538-3687
Print 0003-9942
Archives of Neurology (Chicago)1960-2012
Online 2168-6157
Print 2168-6149
JAMA Neurology2013-…
Online 2330-9644
Print 0375-8540
A.M.A. Archives of Neurology 1959-1960
ISSN-L 0003-9942 ISSN-L 2168-6149ISSN-L 0375-8540
Meta-ISSN: XXXX-XXXX ?
Issue XXXX-XXXX/YYYY ?
Article: XXXX-XXXX/YYYY/ZZZZ ?
- Higher level: meta-ISSNs for a title through time?
- Lower level: influence of NISO/PESC?
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Interactions with other stakeholders- With other identification agencies
• Ensuring the consistency between identification systems• Preventing overlaps and “dead angles”
- With the publishing industry• To ensure that the ISSN system still fit their needs• To facilitate the ingest of external data
- With the producers and users of linked data• To promote the ISSN as a reference identifier in the Linked Open Data
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When do we start?- Vote on systematic revision launched on April 2016
• Results to be announced in September- IF the results are positive:- Duration of the revision process: 24 to 48 months
• Examples of the ISBN revision: almost finished, 3-years duraton- Looking for a representative Working Group
• Members from publishing, libraries, IT domain- Interested participants to contact their ISO national body
• Note: only TC46/SC9 P-members countries allowed to nominate experts
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I thank you for your attention!
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