NAMING: A Key Component of Robust Resolution/Linking Albert Simmonds Business Manager Open Names Service Online Computer Library Center Dublin, Ohio, USA

What are Names? ( Works--Manifestations--Entities)  ISBN  ISSN  ISMN  ISWC  ISAN  ISRC  BICI  SICI  DOI  UPC/EAN  ISTC  IPI  SAN

A Multiplicity of Names Each with its own Functions, Supply Chain, Naming Authorities and Rules for Application

Metadata  INDECS ONIX  Dublin Core  MARC

INTEROPERABILITY  Especially with multi-media products  MPEG21  The Identifiers Consortium: ISBN/ISSN/ISTC/ISAN/ISWC/ISRC

ISBN APPLIED TO DIGITAL FILES: A Case Study  The pool of numbers  How to assign them  Core metadata  Concept of publisher: Authority to assign ISBNs  Print on Demand

RESOLUTION/ LINKING  Cheaper than loading data  More timely than loaded data  Easier to bundle data & content delivery  Owners more comfortable with linking than with loading

Open Names Service Resolution and linking utilized to manage the basic transactions of e-commerce & DRM within a secure, neutral environment

One interface to all linked data To manage traffic to sites relevant to specific identifiers (“names”)

Base Service  Profiling of customers  Authentication

Value Added Services  Joint technology development  Joint marketing  Profiling of services  Supply chain consulting  Separation of Names from services  Trusted third party  Requests simple enough to hand enter; complete enough for services like SFX

Development Schedule  Prototype at the annual meeting of the American Library Association  In production: January 2002

Useful Sites  BICI: s.html#drafts s.html#drafts  ISBN: bowker.com/standards/

Albert Simmonds