RE: WorldCat xISBN

My point is that there are increasingly numerous versions of
a 
journal article 'work', just as there are of books, and a
way of 
linking all of these to the relevant DOI would be fantastic

Sally Morris
Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy)
Email:  sallymorris-assocs.demon.co.uk

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:owner-liblicense-llists.yale.edu] On Behalf
Of Eric Hellman
Sent: 29 May 2007 02:32
To: liblicense-llists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: WorldCat xISBN

Crossref DOI's are intended to identify articles at the
"work" 
level, so in principle, there is not a need to relate DOi 
identifiers to unify a work. In practice, of course, this is
not 
always true.

We are working on a service that will relate ISSNs; I'm
hesitant 
to say anything more until things are more definite.

Eric


At 10:44 PM -0400 5/27/07, Sally Morris (Morris
Associates) wrote:
>Wouldn't it be interesting to be able to do the same for
journal
>articles?
>
>Sally Morris
>Consultant, Morris Associates (Publishing Consultancy)
>Email:  sallymorris-assocs.demon.co.uk
>
>-----Original Message-----
>[mailto:owner-liblicense-llists.yale.edu] On Behalf
Of Eric Hellman
>Sent: 14 May 2007 22:44
>To: liblicense-llists.yale.edu
>Subject: WorldCat xISBN
>
>Development and Support for xISBN and related
"xIdentifier"
>services are being done by my group here in New
Jersey...
>
>Eric
>
>FOR MORE INFORMATION: Bob Murphy +1-614-761-5136
murphyboclc.org
>
>WorldCat xISBN service enhances search results with
associated
>forms of individual works in WorldCat
>
>DUBLIN, Ohio, May 11, 2007-The WorldCat xISBN service,
the OCLC
>service that supplies International Standard Book
Numbers
>associated with individual intellectual works
represented in the
>WorldCat database, is now also available for commercial
and
>high-use applications.
>
>The WorldCat xISBN service, which began as an OCLC
Research
>project, is a machine-to-machine service that supplies
ISBNs and
>other information associated with an individual work in
WorldCat,
>the world's richest database for discovery of items held
in
>libraries. It has been a supported service, available at
no
>charge for individual, non-commercial use, since
February.  It is
>now also being made available for commercial and
high-use
>applications (more than 500 requests per day) via
subscription.
>
>The xISBN service helps a user find a resource when an
ISBN
>assigned to any printing or edition of the work is
known.  Users
>submit an ISBN to the service to return a list of
related ISBNs
>and selected metadata.
>
>"The ability to automatically expand ISBN queries
to include all
>editions of a work will help users find the information
they
>need," said Robin Murray, Vice President, OCLC
Global Product
>Management. "The xISBN service is another example
of OCLC's
>commitment to finding new ways to make the WorldCat
database work
>for our users." ISBNs are related to each other
using
>librarian-cataloged bibliographic records in WorldCat
together
>with an algorithm that implements the FRBR model for
information
>objects that brings together multiple versions of a
work.  The
>FRBR model keeps WorldCat users from having to browse
numerous
>records that represent many different manifestations of
a
>book-such as different printings, hardcover or
paperback
>editions, audiobooks or film versions, for example-and
brings
>them together under one record.
>
>The WorldCat xISBN service is ideal for Web-enabled
search
>applications, such as library catalogs and online
booksellers,
>and based on associations made in the WorldCat database,
xISBN
>enables an end user to link to information about other
versions
>of a source work.  Among the uses of the WorldCat xISBN
service:
>to identify a book from an online bookseller to
determine if that
>book is available at the user's library; to confirm that
no
>alternative versions of a work are available before a
library
>sends an interlibrary loan request; to use a single
search to
>check holdings of all editions of a work before making
a
>selection for acquisition. More information about the
WorldCat
>xISBN service is available on the OCLC WorldCat Web
site:
><http://www.worldcat.org/affiliate/webservices/xi
sbn/app.jsp>.
>Send e-mail to xisbn-supportoclc.org for details about
>subscriptions.

[SNIP]

Eric Hellman, Director
OCLC Openly Informatics Division
ericopenly.com