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?
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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