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How to add ISSN metadata to a web page

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Don't forget that adding an ISSN comes with legal deposit obligations.

https://www.bl.uk/help/how-to-deposit-your-digital-publicati...

Adding a DOI comes with obligations too. A persistent identifier is persistent largely because of shared obligations.

https://www.crossref.org/documentation/metadata-stewardship/...

That seems pretty easy for a blog:

"If you publish material on the open web, we should be able to collect this by web archiving. Where a publication is made available online and protected by password or login facility, the Library can request access to archive those materials by giving 1 month’s written notice."

So I guess you would just contact and say "please start archiving my site"?

I thought ISSN was yesterday's thing and all the cool kids used DOI these days ?

If you know of a way to automate minting a DOI on WordPress - please let me know. I'd be keen to experiment.

Possibly https://wordpress.org/plugins/doi-creator/, but you’ll need to give the code a review before using it, just to be safe.

ISSNs identify the publisher (edit: the publication). DOIs identify items of content.

The publication, not the publisher.

Ah yes, that's true.

DOIs are assigned to journals too. It's not entirely consistent though, and journal DOIs can overlap with ISSNs.

I think the cool kids are using SHA hashes and PGP signatures ))

Should each blog post be assigned an issue number as to get an unique ID?

It looks like the ISSN would be for the entire blog.

Yup!

Just like how you can identify a specific point in a book using ISBN, chapter/section, and page; you identify a specific point in a serial publication using ISSN, the volume/number of the issue, and page.

The ISBN and ISSN serve the purpose of representing the author, title, and publisher. (And in books, also represents the specific edition.)

A dot mobi name in the wild... and in actual use!

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