Roger Wallin writes:
> Ok! I'll continue on the same theme.
> I found the following statement:
> "However for bibliographic and cross domain searching, the 'Standard
> Identifier' (DC.identifier) access point is used for ISSN, ISBNs, ISMNs,
> LCCNs, etc."
For anyone who wonders, that's in the Bath Profile For SRW,
http://zing.z3950.org/srw/bath/2.0/
> Can I use DC.identifier to access both the isbn- and issn-index
That's what it says: so if you're searching in a server that conforms
to this profile, then yes. (I don't know whether there actually are
any such servers, though.)
> and how should this be explained in the XML below?
It can't be.
> If not, how should a new index "identifierAll" be explained that is
> a "union" of isbn and issn, ie.
ZeeRex doesn't have a way of expressing that./
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