16 articles in this issue
Gaëlle Béquet
Cecília Leite
Françoise Pellé
AbstractIn 1975, the creation of the Centre d’enregistrement des publications en série (CIEPS) / International Centre for the Registration of Serial Publications was supported by Unesco and France. This intergovernmental organisation is responsible for id... see more
Suzanne Santiago
AbstractAfter the years of creation and implementation of the ISSN system, the network and the International Centre had to face a new stage of development. On a relational level, the sudden death of Mrs Rosenbaum had deeply affected all who had taken part... see more
Pierre Godefroy
AbstractOn the unending path towards a better integration of the ISSN and its accompanying metadata in the semantic web, the new horizon is that of linked data, so as to make sure that ISSN data is fully linkable for universal computing. However, while st... see more
Marjorie Currie,Rebecca Gibbs
AbstractIn this paper, the authors describe the work being done by the Australian ISSN Agency to support the National Library of Australia’s newspaper digitisation program. The overall process, including the program’s workflows and systems is outlined, as... see more
Madeleine Kiss
AbstractThe assignment of ISSN to continuing resources is undeniably important. It identifies these resources whilst ensuring the traceability of their evolution over time, for instance possible changes to the types of media on which they are made availab... see more
Regina Romano Reynolds
AbstractAbstract: If the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) did not exist, someone would have to invent it. It’s that simple. In the current environment where databases contain many millions of records, unique identifiers are crucial. Most databa... see more
Peter Burnhill
AbstractThis written celebration of 40 years of the ISSN Network is written in two parts. The first takes its starting point in about 1995, about halfway in the life of the ISSN Network, when the Internet was well established and the Web was beginning to ... see more
Lillian Alvares,Juliana Bueno,Nathalie Cornic
AbstractPresents an overview of the ISSN national centers in Latin America, the region of the Americas where mostly Latin derived languages are spoken, especially Spanish and Portuguese. The ISSN presence in the region is low. Only ten out of twenty count... see more
Ingrid Parent
In 1990 I became the Acting Director of the Cataloguing Branch at the National Library of Canada (NLC). NLC was an active early member of the ISSN international program, Canada having acceded to the ISSN Statutes under the auspices of Unesco in the 1970's... see more