Introducing –13 digit isbn

Janet Broome

Isbn 13 – why should you care

• Affects Unicorn Functionality• It is a factor in your upgrade plans

– (1) Title Control Number – (Bibload report, match and load in Smartport

– (2) Searching in WorkFlows and iBlink – isbn indexes, also “general”, “words or phrase”

– (3) EDIFACT– (4) isbn validation

What are isbn’s for?

• isbn – International Standard Book Number

- uniquely identifies the edition of a published book

• Created by the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)

• isbn’s are catlalogue numbers for books

• isbns allow for ease of use between:-–Booksellers, Publishers, Libraries

The Traditional isbn

• Now known as isbn-10

• Example:0-89480-754-4• •Four parts including:• –PART 1:Country code• –PART 2:Publisher code• –PART 3:Unique identifier for the particular

title/edition• –PART 4:A check digit (a calculated value)• •The check digit is sometimes the letter “X”

Side by Side Comparison

The new isbn

• •Known as ISBN-13• •Example: 978-0-89480-754-1• •Five parts including:• –PART 1:978(the prefix for now)• –PART 2:Country code• –PART 3:Publisher code• –PART 4:Identifies the particular title/edition• –PART 5:A check digit (derived with a different calculation)• •The check digit is a NUMBER neverthe letter “X”• •ISBN-13 check digit ≠ ISBN-10 check digit (usually)• Parts 2-4 are derived from ISBN-10

Why isbn 13

• The world is running out of 10 digit numbers• Question – So why not 11 digits?• Answer – An opportunity to jump on the EAN

bandwagon• EAN : Was the European Article Number• EAN: Now International Article Number• EAN is like the UPC• UPC-A General Use barcode, as applicable to all

products, except pharmaceuticals• Isbn 13: The Bookland EAN

Timeline for isbn 13

• Transition period for now– 2005 and 2006– Publishers issue both isbn 10 and 13

– Cutoff is January 1, 2007– –OnlyISBN-13 to be issued– –979 prefixes will eventually be used, not just 978

LC and OCLC

• •LC is putting ISBN-13 & ISBN-10 in consecutive tags

– 020 __ 9781873671000 (ISBN-13 first)– 020 __ 1873671008 (ISBN-10 second)

• •OCLC is putting ISBN-13 in 024 (indicator 1 = 3)

– 020 __ 1873671008 (ISBN-10 in 020)– 024 3_ 9781873671000(ISBN-13 in 024)

• •Ask your MARC vendor(s) for their ISBN-13 practices & plans!

www.loc.gov/marc

• More detailed information

Why Should You Care

• It Affects Unicorn Functionality• Title Control Number

– Bibload report and Smartport “match and load”

Title Control Number Lookup – Access Point in Item/Search and Display

Title Control Number and Match Update – Title Control Number Source in BibLoad

Title Control Number Matching – “Match and Load” in SmartPort

Title Control Number Matching

Title control number: long enough already (14)– Letter “i” + 13 digitsGL3.0 GL3.1 upgrade will convert ISBN-10 Title Control Num to

ISBN-13–978 prefix is added “on the fly”–Check digit is recalculated•As of GL3.0/GL3.1, 020 tag ISBN-10 converted toISBN-13 for

matching–In both bibload and SmartPort (if using ISBN as match point)–If ISBN-10 is found in first (or only) 020

978 prefix is added “on the fly”Check digit is recalculated “on the fly”

–Database is checked for Title Control Num match on ISBN-13 form

Title Control Number is updated, not MARC data

• 020 and 024 tags are never altered • Only the title control key is converted

Why should you care

• Searching• (General, Words or phrase, everything)

Indexing

Indexing

Indexing

Indexing

• Indexing Twice in GL 3.1

• After upgrade works straight away on newly added records

• Works for any record that gets updated

• “Rebuild Text Database” to retrospectively convert records prior to GL 3.0 and GL 3.1 upgrade

Title Control Num and Searching : 3 scenarios

• Two isbn’s in 020 tag– ISBN 13– ISBN 10

• One isbn in 020 tag• ISBN 10

• One isbn in 020 tag• ISBN 13

Scenario 1

Scenario 2

Scenario 3

Why Should I care?

• EDIFACT

EDIFACT

• A suppliers EDIFACT tranmission may use ISBN• EDIFACT Support of paired ISBN avaialable in

GL3.0/GL3.1

Why should I care?

• ISBN validation• ISBN validation has been available since 2003.1• ISBN 13 validation is available in GL 3.1• Patch for 3.0

Should I be concerned?

• If you are a library that imports and exports data

• Uses acquisitions/EDIFACT• Uses Smartport• Should be planning an upgrade to GL 3.1

(preferred)

2003.0 customer or lower

• Question? I am a 2003.0 customer, I do not import records or use EDIFACT, but I do catalogue records with 13 digit isbn’s will searching be affected

• Answer? The isbn will be indexed as a 13 digit isbn

Upgrade Options for GL releases

• If you are at 2002 you need to upgrade to 2003.1

• If you are at 2003.0 you can upgrade to GL 3.0 without upgrading to 2003.1 first

• If you are at 2003.1 you can upgrade to GL 3.1 without upgrading to GL 3.0