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OCLC Research
OCLC Research Announces Experimental xISBN Service
From the announcement, “The experimental xISBN service supplies ISBNs associated with individual intellectual works represented in the OCLC WorldCat database. Give it an ISBN, and it returns a list of associated ISBNs. The ISBNs returned from the service can in turn be re-used in a query to a bibliographic database (e.g., via a FRBR Bookmarklet) to improve the chances of a user finding any/all instances of the work in a given database.”
See Also: OCLC hosts “info” URI registry
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Scholarly Materials
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Uncertain Fate of Scholarly Artifacts in a Digital Age
From the article, “The raw materials of research — novels, notes, artwork, letters — are being produced on computers and saved on floppy disks and hard drives. Many scholars fear that these materials are in danger of ending up in the junk heap, trapped in obsolete computers. Others say the information age could be an age of plenty, an age when scholars reconceive their habits of research to cope with mountains of data, which then yield bold new discoveries. That future, however, will depend on digital-archiving strategies that are just now being planned. They have not yet been tested, or paid for.”

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