Bruce,

You might want to look at the SICI (Serial Item something something)
standard at niso.org -- The SICI creates an identifier for a journal
article from the bibliographic data. A similar BICI was developed for
books and chapters but never caught on. The problem with all of these
solutions is that they break down because the underlying metadata can
have variations that then affect the creation of the identifier, but in
some cases the identifier is the same in different systems. The
advantage is that the identifier can be derived from the metadata,
therefore there is a chance that different systems will derive the same
identifier (which isn't true with arbitrary IDs).

kc

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 14:49, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> I'm trying to resolve an issue with respect to record ids and citation
> coding.  I wonder if people who've been thinking about this might take
> a look and comment on the blog entry?
>
> http://netapps.muohio.edu/blogs/darcusb/darcusb/archives/2004/11/27/
> citation-ids
>
> My latest idea is to use the info uri scheme to handle this, which is
> why I'm posting it to this list.
>
> Bruce
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