On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 17:08, Doug M-C wrote:

>
> But for citations that is exactly what is needed, yes? Because
> when I cite "Moby Dick", I AM citing a particular version of that
> work (print or digital, etc). Every publisher that has published
> Moby Dick has done so with their own unique pagination, after all!

It all depends on what level you are trying to identify. If you want to
identify a work, then ISBN isn't going to help. If you want to identify
a particular instance of publishing, then ISBN is fine (at least for
modern materials -- didn't it start up in the 60's?).

>
> All we need is for isbn (and issn) to be registered as info uri
> namespaces and we will be halfway there!

Well, more like about 1-3% of the way, since ISBN identifies whole
books, and ISSN identifies journal titles (i.e. Time Magazine). You
still need something that identifies articles, chapters, online
resources, etc.

Also, I'm not sure an info uri is needed since ISBN and ISSN are already
in the IANA URN list:
  http://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces

The info uri registry is at: http://info-uri.info/registry, BTW, so you
can look there to see what is registered.

kc

>
> Oh, and get all the bibliographic software tools to use info uris
>  as keys in their databases!<grin>
>
> Doug
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