Bowker, Nielsen doing International Standard Text Code registrations
International Standard Text Code Agency Announces New Registration Agency Appointments says:
The International ISTC Agency, the official Registration Authority for the International Standard Text Code (ISTC), is pleased to announce its appointment of Bowker and Nielsen Book as ISTC registration agencies that are now authorized to assign ISTCs on behalf of publishers, authors and content owners.
An approved ISO standard (ISO 21047), the ISTC provides a means of uniquely and persistently identifying textual works in information systems, and facilitates the exchange of information about such works between publishers, authors and authors associations, collective management organizations, libraries, search engines and others on an international level. More information regarding the ISTC standard is available at www.ISTC-International.org, the new official web site of the International ISTC Agency.
There was discussion on AUTOCAT after this. Tim “Mr. LibraryThing” Spalding spoke up and called me out by name but I just noticed it now. :( Rob Richard replied: “I disagree with your comment that ‘FRBR appears to be primarily designed as a mechanism for producing conference papers. It’s been out for ages and almost nothing has come of it.’” Heh.
I cced you! Hey, will you look at the post I did trying to show differences between the two systems? I suspect you know it better than me, and you have the bully FRBR pulpit.
Comment by Tim — 14 January 2009 @ 5:07 pm