International Identifier for serials
and other continuing resources, in the electronic and print world

2015/11/03

Charleston Library Conference 2015

At 2015 Charleston Library Conference Gaëlle Béquet and Laurie Kaplan, Content Business Analyst Lead at ProQuest, will make a presentation about their joint project to enhance ISSN assignment to serial resources identified in Ulrich’s database.

Find more about the conference program on http://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com .

2015/10/30

Meeting of the Joint Steering Committee for the development of the RDA bibliographic standard

JSC-RDA

The ISSN International Centre and members of the ISSN Network will participate in the 2015 meeting of the Joint Steering Committee for the development of the RDA bibliographic standard (2-6 November, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh).

The agenda includes the discussion of issues of serials cataloguing in RDA, and the presentation of the PRESSOO model for the description of periodical resources in linked data.

See http://www.rda-jsc.org/node/236

2015/10/28

Conference at BnF: « L’ISSN face à la transition numérique »

One-day conference « L’ISSN face à la transition numérique » on 4th November, 2015 at Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) 

This one-day-conference about ISSN facing the digital transition is organised by the French ISSN national centre, together with ISSN IC and ABES, the French bibliographic Agency for Higher Education. ISSN 40th anniversary is the opportunity to remind and illustrate the role of ISSN for reliable identification, access and preservation. The future revision of the 3297 ISO standard represents also the opportunity to gather the different stakeholders to discuss issues such as metadata production, workflows and exchange, online resources identification rules and interoperability of identifiers, at a time when linked data is becoming a reality.

Full program and registration:

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/professionnels/anx_journees_pro_2015/a.jp_151104_issn.html