Update ISSN record

[mdoering]

Looking up the COL ISSN 2405-8858 it seems the registration is not fully completed:

This provisional record has been produced before publication of the resource. The published resource has not yet been checked by the ISSN Network.It is only available to subscribing users.

Follow up with issn.org and see if anything needs to be done: https://portal.issn.org/contact-us

[mdoering]

COL needs to apply for an electronic serial publication. We need to provide extensive metadata to serve an ISSN record which includes in particular publisher information including the country. As COL is in the process of setting up a new organisation in the Netherlands it would be great to use that new information already. @olafbanki is there a timeline for the establishment of this new organisation? Can that be done before the annual checklist release in June?

[mdoering]

The manual describes the ISSN record: https://www.issn.org/understanding-the-issn/assignment-rules/issn-manual/#section-1-the-issn-record

MARC 21 and other LOD standards appear to be used by ISSN for exposing their data only.

[chantalhuijbers]

We have used at least four different ISSN numbers: ISSN 2405-884X (Annual Checklist online) ISSN 2405-8858 (Catalogue of Life, monthly editions online) ISSN 2405-917X (DVD) ISSN 1473-009X (CD-ROM)

ISSN numbers should be different for digital vs analog publications, thus the difference between the cd, dvd and online numbers.

Moving forward, we should just use 1 ISSN number for the Catalogue of Life Checklist (as the product), regardless of whether it is an annual or monthly version.

I have contacted ISSN to find out how to move forward to finalise the registration of one of the ISSN numbers for the online publications (both of those numbers are still provisional at the moment).

[mdoering]

Any news on this? @olafbanki @chantalhuijbers which ISSN shall we put on COL Checklist releases then, 2405-884X or 2405-8858? Propose to use 2405-8858 unless I hear differently.

[mdoering]

We want to stick with a single ISSN for online releases and need to select one from 2405-884X or 2405-8858. A quick search on google and wikipedia show that the monthly ISSN 8858 has been used mostly on other site than COL itself. But wikipedia has 10x more references from annual lists, thus uses 884X more.

We decided to stay with the ISSN 8858 and will try to update wikipedia articles with COL content to use the latest annual release.

[chantalhuijbers]

Both ISSN numbers that were still provisional are now active: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2405-8858 https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2405-884X#

I think we need to update the information on the ISSN page, which can only be done by someone from the ISSN team. For the ISSN that we want to continue for the online versions in the new infrastructure (2405-8858), I propose the following info:

Title proper: Catalogue of Life Checklist Country: Netherlands (or should I check if we can make this Global ?) Medium: online URL: https://www.catalogueoflife.org/

I don't know what other fields they have for which we can provide information, all I could find so far is: https://portal.issn.org/faq2

[chantalhuijbers]

The other ISSN (2405-884X) was used for the previous annual editions. As every version is an online edition of the COL Checklist, we only need to continue with one ISSN (2405-8858) for future releases, but we should update the information for this older one. I will ask ISSN if we can add a description in which we can explain that this ISSN was used for Annual Checklists 2016-2019. Should we therefore also change the URL to the landing page of COL Checklist 2019?

[mdoering]

Yes, I think that makes sense: http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019/ And hopefully ISSN also has a way to indicate that the ISSN is not used anymore as the serial publication is completed.