Bibliographic identifiers

Bibliographic identifiers are strings of symbols (usually ASCII-compatible) that are used to briefly identify a work or unique publication within a written citation such as in Bibliography section or "Works Cited" page.

Notable identifiers

Wikidata entity ID

• Wikidata:Q111513370
• Maintaining organization: Wikidata
• Affiliated entities: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons
• Main website: https://wikidata.org
• Reference: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Identifiers#Wikidata_identifiers
• Example: Hogfather (Q925723), a 1996 novel by Terry Pratchett.

OCLC ID

• Wikidata:Property:P243
• Maintaining organization: OCLC
• Affiliated entities: WorldCat, Amazon.com (WorldCat.org search results display Amazon Goodreads reviews)
• Main website: https://www.worldcat.org
• Other names: “OCLC control number”, “WorldCat accession number“, “OCN”
• Example: Hogfather (36217246), a 1996 novel by Terry Pratchett.

OCLC work ID

• Wikidata:Property:P5331
• Other names:
• Reference:
  • 2017-12-14: Explanation webinar by OCLC Research.
  • Wikidata property P5331 talk page
• Main website: (Baltakatei: I couldn't find a working website that could provide OCLC work IDs. worldcat.org accepts OCLC work IDs and displays a relevant OCLC ID, but does not display an OCLC work ID given a OCLC ID.)

WorldCat Entities ID

• Wikidata:Property:P10832
• Maintaining organization: OCLC
• Main website: https://entities.oclc.org/
• Example: Hogfather (E39PCXRQ6yWkhJVjmXQHgc8y4V)

Open Library ID

• Wikidata:Property:P648
• Main website: https://openlibrary.org
• Maintaining organization: Open Library
• Affiliated entities: Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, Aaron Swartz
• Example: Hogfather (OL453662W), a 1996 novel by Terry Pratchett

ISBN

• Wikidata:Q33057
• Description: unique numeric book identifier
• Types: ISBN-13, ISBN-10 (deprecated)

ISSN

• Wikidata:Q131276
• Description: An 8-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication such as a magazine.
• Other names: International Standard Serial Number
• Maintaining organization: ISSN International Centre (link)
• Date introduced: 1976
• Specification: ISO 3297
• Example: Nature (1476-4687), a notable and reputable scientific journal.
• Main website: https://portal.issn.org/

CODEN

• Wikidata:Q1023962
• Description: six character, alphanumeric bibliographic code

SICI

• Wikidata:Q3479782
• Description: Serial Item and Contribution Identifier

LCCN

• Wikidata:Q620946
• Description: Library of Congress Control Number

PubMed ID

• Wikidata:Q2082879
• Description: PubMed's unique identifier of a scholarly work
• Maintaining organization: PubMed
• Main website: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
• Similar but not equivalent: PubMed Central identifier (PMCID).

arXiv ID

• Wikidata:P818
• Description: identifier of a document in arXiv pre-print archive
• Maintaining organization: arXiv
• Main website: https://arxiv.org/

DOI

• Wikidata:Q25670
• Description: Digital object identifier. ISO standard unique string identifier for a digital object
• Maintaining organization: International DOI Foundation
• Start date: 2000
• Main website: https://www.doi.org
• Example: https://doi.org/10.1086/273085

Baltakatei history

• 2023-04-10: Add some notable identifiers I am familiar with to help clarify their details in my mind (especially the new OCLC work ID and WorldCat Entities ID).

See also

• Wikipedia:Category:Unique identifiers (other identifiers similar to CODEN, ISBN, ISSN, etc.)
• Wikipedia:Persistent uniform resource locator: a permanent address to a resource on the web.

External links

• bk4, reboil.com