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The Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI) is a code (ANSI/NISO standard Z39.56) used to uniquely identify specific volumes, articles or other identifiable parts of a periodical. It is "intended primarily for use by those members of the bibliographic community involved in the use or management of serial titles and their contributions". The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private, non-profit standards organization that produces industrial standards in the United States. ...
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is a United States non-profit standards organization that develops, maintains and publishes technical standards related to bibliographic and library applications. ...
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It is an extension of the International Standard Serial Number, which identifies an entire periodical (similar to the way an ISBN number identifies a specific book). The ISSN applies to the entire publication, however, including every volume ever printed, so this more specific identifier was developed by the Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee (SISAC) to allow references to specific parts of a journal. ISSN, or International Standard Serial Number, is the unique eight-digit number applied to a periodical publication including electronic serials. ...
The International Standard Book Number, or ISBN (sometimes pronounced is-ben), is a unique[1] identifier for books, intended to be used commercially. ...
The variable-length code is compatible with other identifiers, such as DOI, PII, and URN.[1][2] It is free of charge. A digital object identifier (or DOI) is a standard for persistently identifying a piece of intellectual property on a digital network and associating it with related data, the metadata, in a structured extensible way. ...
A Uniform Resource Name (URN) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that uses the urn scheme, and does not imply availability of the identified resource. ...
The SICI is a recognized international standard and is in wide use by publishers and the bibliographic community, primarily as an aid to finding existing articles or issues.[3] JSTOR adopted SICIs in 2001 as the primary article identifier, due to their persistence and applicability to the many types of journal content found in JSTOR's archive.[4][5] JSTOR®, begun in 1995, is an online system for archiving academic journals. ...
Details The SICI code is composed of three segments, intended to be both human-readable and easy for machines to parse automatically. The following example SICI is explained below[6]: - Item
- Abstract from Lynch, Clifford A. "The Integrity of Digital Information; Mechanics and Definitional Issues." JASIS 45:10 (Dec. 1994) p. 737-44
- SICI
- 0002-8231(199412)45:10<737:TIODIM>2.3.TX;2-M
Item segment - 0002-8231
- This is the ISSN for the periodical, in this case the Journal of the American Society for Information Science
- (199412)
- The chronology part is in parentheses and identifies the date of publication. In this case, it is signified by month and year; December 1994
- 45:10
- The enumeration part signifies the volume and number; Vol. 45, no. 10.
ISSN, or International Standard Serial Number, is the unique eight-digit number applied to a periodical publication including electronic serials. ...
Contribution segment - <
- Signifies the start of the contribution segment
- 737
- Location code: signifies the page number, frame number, reel number, etc. In this case, page 737
- TIODIM
- Title code: based on the title of the article. In this case, an initialism: "The Integrity of Digital Information; Mechanics and Definitional Issues."
- >
- Signifies the end of the contribution segment
Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for. ...
Control segment - 2
- Code Structure Identifier (CSI) for the type of SICI being constructed
- 3
- Derivative Part Identifier (DPI) identifies a part of the contribution, such as a table of contents or abstract
- TX
- Format identifier two-letter code signifying the way content is presented. In this case, TX = printed text
- 2-
- Standard version number
- M
- Check character allows a computer to detect errors in the code, similar to ISBN's check digit
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Examples - Item
- Bjorner, Susanne. “Who Are These Independent Information Brokers?” Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, Feb-Mar. 1995, Vol. 21, no. 3, page 12
- SICI
- 0095-4403(199502/03)21:3<12:WATIIB>2.0.TX;2-J
URN To use in a URN, the SICI is percent-encoded and prefixed.[7] For example, to create a URN for a specific article "From text to hypertext by indexing" in the journal ACM Transactions on Information Systems: Categories: Stub ...
Percent-encoding, also known as URL encoding, is a mechanism for encoding information in a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) under certain circumstances. ...
- SICI
- 1046-8188(199501)13:1<69:FTTHBI>2.0.TX;2-4
- URN
- URN:SICI:1046-8188(199501)13:1%3C69:FTTHBI%3E2.0.TX;2-4
This could then be used to refer to the article inside an HTML citation (in the <cite> element), for instance, in a way that is superior to an HTTP link for documents that are not on the web or have transient URLs: [8] In computing, an HTML element indicates structure in an HTML document and a way of hierarchically arranging content. ...
HTTP (for HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the primary method used to convey information on the World Wide Web. ...
A Uniform Resource Locator, URL (spelled out as an acronym, not pronounced as earl), or Web address, is a standardized address name layout for resources (such as documents or images) on the Internet (or elsewhere). ...
<blockquote cite="urn:sici:1046-8188(199501)13:1%3C69:FTTHBI%3E2.0.TX;2-4"> <p>A model is presented for converting a collection of documents to hypertext by means of indexing. The documents are assumed to be semistructured, i.e., their text is a hierarchy of parts, and some of the parts consist of natural language. The model is intended as a framework for specifying hypertextual reading capabilities for specific application areas and for developing new automated tools for the conversion of semistructured text to hypertext.</p> </blockquote> An internet draft proposal to officially register the SICI namespace for URNs with IANA was made in 2002, but is currently dormant.[9][10] Internet Drafts (IDs) are a series of documents published by the IETF. They are drafts for RFCs. ...
In general, a namespace is an abstract container, which is or could be filled by names, or technical terms, or words, and these represent (stand for) real-world things. ...
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is an organisation that oversees IP address, top level domain and Internet protocol code point allocations. ...
DOI SICI codes can be used as the item ID in a DOI identifier.[11] In the following example, the number 10.1002 is the DOI's publisher ID, a slash acts as a separator, and the rest, which is publisher-specific, is the SICI code: A digital object identifier (or DOI) is a standard for persistently identifying a piece of intellectual property on a digital network and associating it with related data, the metadata, in a structured extensible way. ...
The slash A slash or stroke, /, is a punctuation mark. ...
- 10.1002/0002-8231(199601)47:1<23:TDOMII>2.0.TX;2-2
See also - The BICI is a draft with a very similar format and functionality, using an ISBN instead of an ISSN, used to identify components of a book.
- ISSN
- DOI
ISSN, or International Standard Serial Number, is the unique eight-digit number applied to a periodical publication including electronic serials. ...
A digital object identifier (or DOI) is a standard for persistently identifying a piece of intellectual property on a digital network and associating it with related data, the metadata, in a structured extensible way. ...
References - ^ The DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
- ^ Document identifiers: an update on current activities
- ^ Evaluation of SICI (Serial Item and Contribution Identifier)
- ^ JSTOR and "Deep Linking" — No. 5, Issue 2, JSTORNEWS, June 2001
- ^ The SICI Standard — JSTOR
- ^ What is the SICI? — Bibliographic Management Factfile — UKOLN
- ^ Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names — RFC 2288
- ^ URNs, bibliographic citations in web authoring
- ^ Using Serial Item and Contribution Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names
- ^ URN NID Assignment Status
- ^ Unique Identifiers in a Digital World
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