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Published in David Austerberry, Digital Asset Management, 2012
When a book is published, it is assigned a unique identifier, the International Standard Book Number (ISBN). The number identifies a specific edition of a specific title in a specific format, so hardback and softback editions will have different ISBNs. There is another unique identifier for periodicals called the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN). In this context, the word serial refers to serial publications, which includes journals, newspapers, and newsletters.
Nomenclature for offsite construction
Published in Building Research & Information, 2022
Jinfeng Lou, Weisheng Lu, Jinying Xu, Xiao Li, Jing Wang
Names can be utilized to categorize, filter, identify, locate and communicate items, providing a feasible and straightforward way to manage information (Baca, 2016). A name is a word or set of words by which a person or thing is known, addressed, or referred to (Oxford University Press, n.d.). Names play a critical role in interpersonal communications, and there is much evidence that we value them in both the physical and digital worlds. In the physical world, when we know nothing about a certain thing, we instinctively obtain its name first. To meet such need, a nomenclature is a system for assigning names (Cambridge University Press, n.d.). For example, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry nomenclature of organic chemistry provides a system for naming any possible organic compound according to its unambiguous structural formula (Connelly et al., 2005). Similar efforts include biological nomenclature (De Queiroz & Gauthier, 1994) and planetary nomenclature (Hargitai, 2006). In the digital era, information is extremely easy to create, copy and modify. Naming, or labelling information with nametags according to nomenclature rules, offers a means of handling the resulting exponential information growth for better communication and collaboration (Duval et al., 2002; Kang & Choi, 2015). Various nomenclature schemes have been proposed for this purpose, such as international standard book number (ISBN), digital object identifier (DOI) and uniform resource identifier (URI).