On Fri, 14 May 2004, Paul Hollands wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> The use of hyphens in the ISBN and ISSN examples may cause some
> confusion. My understanding is that ISBNs/ISSNs are agnostic about the
> hyphens and they are included only for reasons of legibility when
> printed on book spines etc.. I don't believe MARC cataloguers are
> required to use them (could be wrong). Maybe a note about the ISBNs and
> ISSNs being valid with or without them might be useful?? Or am I totally
> mistaken?
Yes, you are right. I've added a note about this.
Andy.
> Cheers.
>
> Andy Powell wrote:
>
> >I don't think I've formally announced the document at
> >
> >http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi-ieee/identifiers/
> >
> >though it did get briefly mentioned in a previous thread about identifiers
> >on this list. Anyway, I've just been going over the document to tidy up
> >one or two loose ends so it seems appropriate to mention it again :-)
> >
> >It provides guidelines for encoding a number of commonly used identifiers
> >in DC metadata and IEEE LOM records and recommends always encoding
> >identifiers as URIs.
> >
> >As always, comment, corrections, etc. are very welcome.
> >
> >Andy
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