[openbiblio-dev] Pubmed data: URI forms for journals

Tue May 3 16:21:29 UTC 2011

Would absolutely love for this to be handled by the actual issuer. I
guess that I have been burnt by repeated quashed hopes of something like
this actually happening for me to consider it a possibility...

Would making a purl prefix for it work?

purl.org/net/issn/.... ?

Ben

On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 11:26 -0400, Tom Morris wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Ben O'Steen <bosteen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > We have to conjure URIs for journals....
> >
> > The journals in pubmed have either an issn (very common, but not blanket
> > coverage), and/or an eissn.
> >
> > What seemed obvious at the time, was to use either:
> > bibliographica.org/issn/1234-1234 or /eissn/.... (Issn ans eissns have the
> > same form unfortunately and conflict so precludes /journal/{issn/eissn
> > number})
> >
> > Is there now a commonly adopted purl or similar stub for issns/eissns?
> >
> > Anyone have a better idea?
> 
> Wouldn't the best approach to be have the registrar mint these URIs?
> e.g. http://www.issn.org/issn/1234-1234
> 
> Have they been approached?
> 
> Tom