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2025-06-10 17:21 UTC
@kcoyle@mstdn.social Yes, that is true. But I would extend this concepts to other kinds of identifiers, e.g. I just learn some days ago how intensively KBR (ex Royal Library of Belgium) injects ISNI identifiers to their catalogue. The questions are: 1) what about coverage? 2) can external researchers uses WorldCat or ISNI or other library related APIs (e.g. for concepts: DDC, UDC etc.)? I am happy to see that in recent MARC standard updates there are more place for identifiers and provenance information.
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@kcoyle@mstdn.social 2025-06-11 16:48
@kiru@openbiblio.social It's hard for me to see ISNI or VIAF as data that catalogers need to add to MARC records. I would like to see some attempts to assign those algorithmically. Edward Betts did some interesting coding for the Open Library by combining names and book titles to identify an author.