For some reason, the code4lib listservs reject my [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail (undoubtedly having to do with the domain name -- any ideas welcome) so I'll try to keep track of the list from this account.
Meanwhile... We talked about something like this at the Open Library meeting last Friday in a group that including Rob Styles, who has thought long and hard about identifiers. I think of this as a (or one or more) translate service between IDs, aka xISBN on steroids. It's a realization that we will never have a unique ID that everyone agrees on, that most bibliographic items are really more than one thing, but that since we have data about the bibliographic item we have many opportunities to make connections even though people have used different identifiers. So we could use an "ID-switcher" to move among data stores and services. Is that the kind of thing folks are thinking of? kc -- ----------------------------------- Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcoyle.net ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet fx.: 510-848-3913 mo.: 510-435-8234 ------------------------------------