"[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>The link is pointing to a unique address on the web with a powerful builtin
>access mechanism.
 
What is to prevent MARC record entries having a URI or other unique
link, as they have done in both Germany and Canada? 


So far as I can see, linked data is not defendant on either RDA or
Bibframe.

There is no reason local ASNs can not be unique; we preface with
initials to achieve that.

Our experience with the loss of records to mergers on OCLC, makes us
not trust external control numbers to be consistent in to what they
refer.  Certainly OCNs can not be so trusted.  We keep a copy of
records we create, in order to replace them for clients if they vanish
from OCLC.  I'm not as trusting of the permanence of those linked
"entities" as some.  Nor do I wish to be dependent on a source which
may suffer shutdown.


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