A talk given at the conference 'Taking the Long View: International Perspectives on E-Journal Archiving', Sept 7th 2015.

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Good identification enables better
preservation
Gaëlle Béquet
ISSN International Centre
Director

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Presentation outlines
- ISSN & the birth of Serial Identification
- The ISSN Register and the Network today
- Coordination within and outside the ISSN
Network
- Which e-resources does ISSN identify?
- Recording an online resource under various
formats
- ROAD & The Keepers Registry

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ISSN & the birth of Serial Identification
1971: UNISIST : UNESCO programme to foster the
development of a world scientific information system
1973: Publication of the Guidelines for ISDS by
UNESCO
1983: Publication of the revised ISDS Manual
1990’s: ISSN faced with the diversity of physical media
2007: ISSN-L created

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The ISSN Network today
– Has been growing steadily since 1975, signature
by France and Unesco of the intergovernmental
Treaty for the creation of ISSN IC.
– Now consists of 88 Member countries – Russia &
Kenya to join soon!
– Represented by national libraries, book chambers
and scientific institutions worldwide.
– Coordinated by ISSN International Centre based
in Paris.
– 2015: 40th Anniversary of ISSN network
– ISSN = ISO 3297 standard that will come under
systematic review in 2016.

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The ISSN Register today
Total number of records: 1,822,879
1,653,245 records for print resources,
169,634 records for online resources
(as of Sept. 2015).
Approx. 60,000 new full records per year
844 bibliographic files sent by 46 NCs
3,233 ISSN records created directly by ISSN
IC

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Coordination within and outside the
ISSN Network
2000: AACR/ISBD(S)/ISSN Meeting of Experts at the
Library of Congress
2002 : Publication of ISBD(CR) as the revision of
ISBD(S) (1988)
2005 : UNIMARC incorporates some ISSN
requirements
2008 : UNIMARC incorporates ISSN-L

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Coordination within and outside the
ISSN Network
Prior to 2012: Ad hoc working groups within the ISSN
network
2011: Glasgow meeting with ISBD RG and JSC/RDA
2012: Creation of the ISSN Review Group, liaison
group with ISBD, RDA, FRBR
2015: Publication of the revised ISSN Manual
http://www.issn.org/understanding-the-
issn/assignment-rules/issn-manual/
2015: Protocol between the JSC/RDA and the ISSN
International Centre

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Which e-resources does the ISSN
Register identify?
Continuing resources can be :
- Successively issued like serials
- Or Integrating such as updating databases and
updating web sites.
- The ISSN centres have inclusion criteria and
exclusion criteria for ongoing integrating resources.
What about digital reproductions of ceased print
serials?

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Which e-resources does the ISSN
Register identify?
As of Sept. 4th, 2015:
Records coded as online publications: 169,634
of which 102,374 are linked to other medium edition,
and 67,620 are not…

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ISSN Register & E-resources
Records per country
USA 31,823
UK 15,024
France 12,308
Canada 8,851
Germany 7,411
Brazil 7,391
Spain 6,685
Netherlands 5,446
India 5,414
International organizations 5,151
Austrialia 5,049
Finland 3,947

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ISSN Register & E-resources
Records per type
Periodical 126,840
Not recorded 23,648
Monograph series 9,313
Website 5,496
Newspapers 3,193
Updating database 1,088

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Example of a record in the ISSN Portal
ISSN 0974-5181
ISSN-L 0971-9784
Medium Computer remote
Key Title Annals of cardiac anaesthesia (Online)
First or current publisher Mumbai : Medknow Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Country of publication INDIA
Dates of publication 1998 / 9999 current
Issuing body (as on the piece) Indian Association of cardiovascular Thoracic Anaesthesiologists
Frequency Semiannual
Type of publication Periodical
Language English
Title script Basic roman
Title proper Annals of cardiac anaesthesia.
Abbreviated key title Ann. card. anaesth. (Online)
Universal Decimal
Classification 611.12
URL http://www.annals.in
Additional Physical Form
Entry Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia [ISSN 0971-9784]
ISSN Centre India
Category Register

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Same record in MARC 21
Tag
In
1
In
2 Data
001 vtls000974518
003 ISSN
005 20090118151300.0
007 cr
008 081020c19989999ii f||p|s|||||||||a0eng
022 0 a 0974-5181 2 20 l 0971-9784
035 a (ISSN)09745181
039 9
a 200901181513 b VLOAD c 200810201744 d ICBIB y 200806191647 z VLOAD v 200810201744 w
worksheet_IND0813b_M21Utf8.iso x 45
044 c IND
080 a 611.12
210 a Ann. card. anaesth. b (Online)
222 a Annals of cardiac anaesthesia b (Online)
245 1 a Annals of cardiac anaesthesia.
260 a Mumbai : b Medknow Publications Pvt. Ltd.
699 9 a IND v 20 x [0974-500 y 0976-999] z 20080619 8 -- Register
720 a Indian Association of cardiovascular Thoracic Anaesthesiologists
776 0 t Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia x 0971-9784
856 4 0 u http://www.annals.in

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Same record in
- ROAD display
http://road.issn.org/issn/0974-5181-annals-of-
cardiac-anaesthesia
- RDF (PressOO) [graphical display]:
http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/ARPServlet.tm
p/servlet_1112000057418509985.svg

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Same record in RDF (PressOO) [XML format]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:road="http://road.issn.org/ontology/"
xmlns:pressoo="ttp://issn.org/ns/fr/pressoo/" xmlns:frbroo="http://issn.org/ns/fr/frbr/frbroo/" xmlns:cidoc="http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/">
<frbroo:F18_Serial_Work rdf:about="http://road.issn.org/issn/0974-5181">
<road:publicationStatus rdf:resource="http://marc21rdf.info/terms/alltyp#c"/>
<frbroo:R23i_was_realised_through>
<frbroo:F30_Publication_Event rdf:about="http://road.issn.org/issn/0974-5181#currentPublicationEvent">
<cidoc:P116i_is_started_by>
<pressoo:Z6_Starting_of_Publication rdf:about="http://road.issn.org/issn/0974-5181#StartingOfPublication">
<cidoc:P82_at_some_time_within>1998</cidoc:P82_at_some_time_within>
</pressoo:Z6_Starting_of_Publication>
</cidoc:P116i_is_started_by>
<cidoc:P9_consists_of>
<frbroo:F30_Publication_Event rdf:about="http://road.issn.org/issn/0974-5181#PublicationEvent1">
<road:publisher>
<cidoc:E39_Actor rdf:about="http://road.issn.org/Actor/_Medknow_Publications_And_Media">
<rdfs:label> Medknow Publications And Media</rdfs:label>
<cidoc:P74_has_current_or_former_residence>
<cidoc:E53_Place rdf:about="http://road.issn.org/Place/Mumbai">
<rdfs:label>Mumbai</rdfs:label>
</cidoc:E53_Place>
</cidoc:P74_has_current_or_former_residence>
</cidoc:E39_Actor>
</road:publisher>
</frbroo:F30_Publication_Event>
</cidoc:P9_consists_of>
</frbroo:F30_Publication_Event>
</frbroo:R23i_was_realised_through>
<pressoo:Y42_has_current_area_of_publication rdf:resource="http://issn.org/referentiels/country/IND"/>
<pressoo:Y37_has_former_or_current_issuing_rule>
<pressoo:Z12_Issuing_Rule rdf:about="http://road.issn.org/issn/0974-5181#formerOrCurrentIssuingRule">
<road:physicalMedium rdf:resource="http://marc21rdf.info/terms/continuingori#cr"/>
<pressoo:Y21_foresees_use_of_language rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/languages/eng"/>
<road:titleProper>
<cidoc:E35_Title rdf:about="http://road.issn.org/issn/0974-5181#titleProper">
<rdf:value>Annals of cardiac anaesthesia.</rdf:value>
</cidoc:E35_Title>
</road:titleProper>

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Same record in RDF (PressOO) [As a table of
triples]
Number Subject Predicate Object
1 http://road.issn.org/issn/0974-5181
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-
syntax-ns#type
http://issn.org/ns/fr/frbr/frbroo
/F18_Serial_Work
2 http://road.issn.org/issn/0974-5181
http://road.issn.org/ontology/publicati
onStatus
http://marc21rdf.info/terms/all
typ#c
3
http://road.issn.org/issn/0974-
5181#currentPublicationEvent
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-
syntax-ns#type
http://issn.org/ns/fr/frbr/frbroo
/F30_Publication_Event
4 http://road.issn.org/issn/0974-5181
http://issn.org/ns/fr/frbr/frbroo/R23i_w
as_realised_through
http://road.issn.org/issn/0974
-
5181#currentPublicationEven
t

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The ROAD to PRESSoo
1998: FRBR-er model
2011: ISSN Review Group on FRBRer and ISSN
2012: Technical meeting in Paris with FRBR specialists
2013: ISSN RG / BnF joint working group on the application
of FRBRoo to continuing resources
2014: PRESSoo endorsed by the FRBR review group
2015: PRESSoo circulated for worldwide review by IFLA
2014/15: PRESSoo implemented in ROAD directory of open
access resources (road.issn.org) supported by UNESCO

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ROAD Website

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to know whether a title is
being archived,
and by which archive …

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To conclude
CASA PEPRS KEEPERS REGISTRY
Long live EDINA!
Long live ISSN !
Thank you !
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