{"id":39,"date":"2010-03-29T15:03:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/?p=39"},"modified":"2021-03-09T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T05:06:19","slug":"bic-and-bisg-publish-new-guide-to-the-international-standard-text-code-istc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/2010\/03\/29\/bic-and-bisg-publish-new-guide-to-the-international-standard-text-code-istc\/","title":{"rendered":"BIC and BISG publish new guide to the International Standard Text Code (ISTC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Book Industry Communication (UK) and the Book Industry Study Group (US) have announced the joint publication of \u2018The International Standard Text Code: A Work in Progress\u2019 by Michael Holdsworth, the former Managing Director of\u00a0 Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n<p>The ISTC has been described as potentially the most important bibliographic identifier since ISBN. It is a new ISO standard, published in 2009, which uniquely identifies an underlying textual \u2018work\u2019 independently of any specific physical or digital manifestation. As such it provides a mechanism for identifying an original text that may be available in many seemingly different published versions with different ISBNs.<\/p>\n<p>Holdsworth\u2019s paper is designed to look behind the official documentation of the International ISTC Agency at the opportunities available to publishers, retailers, rights and collection societies and bibliographic aggregators and systems providers to derive benefit from widespread early implementation of the standard.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about ISTC can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.istc-international.org\/\">www.istc-international.org<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.istc.nielsenbook.co.uk\/controller.php?page=1022\">www.istc.nielsenbook.co.uk\/controller.php?page=1022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Industry Communication (UK) and the Book Industry Study Group (US) have announced the joint publication of \u2018The International Standard Text Code: A Work in Progress\u2019 by Michael Holdsworth, the former Managing Director of\u00a0 Cambridge University Press. The ISTC has been described as potentially the most important bibliographic identifier since ISBN. It is a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,171,176],"tags":[3808],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-new-developments-announcements","category-standards-issues","tag-istc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/bibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}