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sevenseventen
·12 дней назад·discuss
It's a 404 for now.
sevenseventen
·3 года назад·discuss
The point is not just to have universally unique identifiers, but to collect common metadata that's associated with the identifiers. Like this:

https://www.bowker.com/siteassets/files/pdf-files/datasubmis...

Since this is the second time I've mentioned Bowker, let me just say that I do not and have never worked for them or with them, although I did meet with their reps several times when I worked in a different part of digital publishing. It's just that they're inescapable when you're talking about ISBNs.
sevenseventen
·3 года назад·discuss
or vice versa! Although DOI RA's are organized functionally rather than regionally. CrossRef -- for journal articles -- is by far the largest RA.

DOI's are far, far more centralized in that CrossRef issues many orders of magnitude more DOI's than all of the others.

The cite-and-be-cited-by use case for scholarly articles is way more compelling than any other use case devised for DOI's.
sevenseventen
·3 года назад·discuss
There are regional ISBN agencies. The US agency, Bowker, assigns ISBN prefixes by publisher, and publishers assign within their prefix as they please. They're supposed to use one ISBN per edition and format, but many publishers use ISBN as a kind of SKU so you can't 100% count on that.

If that sounds sloppy...I went to publishing conferences fairly regularly from the late 90's into the teens, and I never saw a program that didn't have at least one session or panel titled something like "Publishers must improve their metadata practices."