The ISSN International Centre has been contributing to the Keepers Registry (keepers.issn.org) since its inception and started hosting it on the ISSN Portal in December 2019.

Keepers Registry acts as a global monitor on the archiving arrangements for digital and digitized continuing resources.

The ISSN International Centre wants to set up a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) that will meet twice a year, oversee the development of the service and submit plans to the ISSN IC Governing Board. Core TAC membership is to comprise three representatives from the Keeper organisations and three volunteers from the user community, i.e. representatives from libraries’ and/or publishers’ associations, plus the ISSN IC Director (ex officio).

If digital preservation and serial publishing are key issues for the association you represent and you want to share ideas and opportunities, please contact Gaelle Bequet (gaelle.bequet@issn.org) to submit your candidacy for the TAC. ​

Since its inception, Sudoc (the collective catalogue of French academic libraries)  has been supplied with records of the ISSN Register. The partial release of ISSN data since January 2018 now allows a wider exposure of these data to ABES users. ABES (the French Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education) can now expose in RDF key ISSN data released as Linked Open Data, via the Sudoc catalogue from the perennial URL of the record. ABES reaffirms that the widest possible opening up of the data is one of the main thrusts of its developments in the coming years. The unique collaboration between ISSN International Centre and ABES for the production and management of bibliographic data with high added value must be enhanced by the widest possible exposure, and ABES will endeavour, in the years to come, to further promote these developments.

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The ISSN International Centre participated in the 2020 LD4 free online Conference on Linked Data in Libraries. Deanna White, ISSN IC Project Officer, gave a presentation entitled “Liberté, Egalité et Free Données : The Use of Linked Data at the ISSN International Centre”. She shared information about the linked data model implemented in the ISSN Portal. The slides can be found on our Slideshare page.

ISO standard 3297 – ISSN is currently undergoing a systematic revision process which is about to be terminated with a second FDIS ballot that opened on June 26th, 2020 and will close on August 21st. Through this ballot, ISO member organisations will vote on the amendments to the ISSN standard and approve the publication of the sixth version of the standard.

The executive summary of ISSN International Centre 2019 Activity Report is available in the 6 UN official languages on ISSN International Centre’s institutional website.

Deanna White, Project Officer, will participate in this conference now moved online from July 20th to 24th. Her presentation is entitled “Liberté, Egalité et Free Données : The Use of Linked Data at the ISSN International Centre”.

In the framework of the WikiProject Periodicals, the ISSN International Centre will soon upload some metadata from its ISSN Register to Wikidata. ISSN will only upload data on entries that have an ISSN filled in in Wikidata with ISSN (P236). This upload will be done by an automated bot, which will allow regular updates from the ISSN Register.

On 11 June 2020, the Keepers Registry was presented at the 35th Annual NASIG Conference by Ted Westervelt, Chief, US/Anglo Division, Library of Congress, and Willa Tavernier, Open Scholarship Librarian, Indiana University Libraries. They showed how the Keepers Registry and some of the other services offered by the ISSN IC can be used to great benefit by libraries, publishers and all those invested in scholarly communication.

See this presentation on Slideshare and the recording on YouTube.

You can also view all the recorded presentations on the NASIG YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVvnh_CzXS8YgftuvIypTiQ.

Since December 2019, Keepers Registry has been provided through the ISSN Portal. Keepers Registry aggregates archival status information regarding continuing resources supplied by 13 archiving agencies.

Building upon this achievement, the ISSN International Centre has just developed and published free statistics, i.e. the number of archived resources per archiving agency, the level of archiving stewardship, the number of resources under exclusive stewardship, and the distribution of resources per publisher and per archiving agency. You will find them at https://keepers.issn.org/stats.

Educopia Institute has just published a report entitled « Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure » (May 2020) and the author David W. Lewis mentions ROAD and Keepers Registry as essential parts of the global scholarly environment.