One to keep an eye on for the future.
The proposed Institutional Identifiers for libraries and organisations in their supply chain:
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/i2
If this includes museums, it not only gives them a UID, but also, combined with accession numbers, a UID for each object or set of objects.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Very interesting, Andy, thanks for posting! This sounds like something we want for WikiData, no? On May 24, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
One to keep an eye on for the future.
The proposed Institutional Identifiers for libraries and organisations in their supply chain:
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/i2
If this includes museums, it not only gives them a UID, but also, combined with accession numbers, a UID for each object or set of objects.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
We have been using ISIL [1] for quite some time on German Wikipedia [2] now. Any other Wikipedias out there using similar identifiers?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Identifier_for_Libraries... (although not reflected in the English article, ISIL applies for other institutions like museums and archives as well) [2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Infobox_Museum
Regards, Christoph
2013/5/24 Jane Darnell jane023@gmail.com
Very interesting, Andy, thanks for posting! This sounds like something we want for WikiData, no? On May 24, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
One to keep an eye on for the future.
The proposed Institutional Identifiers for libraries and organisations in their supply chain:
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/i2
If this includes museums, it not only gives them a UID, but also, combined with accession numbers, a UID for each object or set of objects.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
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