are you sure you have the right copy? identifying e-books with isbn
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Are you sure you have the right copy?
Identifying E-Books with ISBN
Todd A. Carpenter, NISO Executive DirectorSociety for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting
May 31, 2012 - Arlington, VA
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Standards are familiar, even if you don’t notice
Key Concepts in Standardization
The thing being identified
The Referent
The string identifying the referent
The Identifier
The data that describes the referent
The Metadata
• Identifiers can be but are not necessarily names (often better if they aren’t)
• IDs can be but need not be human-readable. They also may or may not be human understandable.
• Metadata describe attributes of the referent
• Not every attribute need be described
An ID & its metadata
Functional Granularity
You ID an item at the level at which it makes sense for your business
needs to identify that item
Functional Granularity
A lesson in functional granularity
How do these things apply in my life?
Identifying Ebooks
When is a new thing a new thing?
What make one ebook different from another?
E-book characteristicsEncoding structure possibilities (file formats)
Platform dependencies (different devices)
Reflowable (resize)
Mutable (easily changed/updated)
Chunked (the entire item or only elements)
Networkable (location isn’t applicable)
Actionable/interactive
Linkable (to other content)
Transformable (text to speech)
Multimedia capable
Extensible (not constrained by page)
May operate under license terms (not copyright)
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
“Different product forms (e.g. hardcover, paperback, Braille, audio-book, video, online
electronic publication) shall be assigned separate ISBNs. Each different format of an
electronic publication (e.g. “.lit”,“.pdf”, “.html”, “.pdb”) that is published and made separately
available shall be given a separate ISBN.”
ISO 2108: 2007 - Information & Documnetation -- International Standard Book Number
ISBN-13 for E-books
When should a new version get a new ISBN?
PDF? HTML? EPUB? MOBI? KINDLE?
If a publisher refuses to assign one, can a supplier; such as Baker & Taylor, Ingram, or Google?
Metadata bloat – 1 book, with 15 chaptersSold separately available in 5 formats + HC, SC, PoDPotentially 78 ISBNs assigned to one book
THERE IS NO SUCH THING
AS AN E-ISBN
There are only ISBNs asigned to ebooks (OK?)
Industry recommendations released in 2011
------International ISBN Agency
Guidelines for the assignment of ISBNs to e-books
&Book Industry Study Group (BISG)POL-1101: Best Practices for Identifying Digital Products
Simply put:Each file a publisher
produces for external distribution gets an
ISBN
Thank you!
Todd Carpenter, Executive [email protected]
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