International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

ID issn

DatatypeNot PIIidentifier

The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an eight-digit serial number used to uniquely identify a serial publication, such as a magazine. The ISSN is especially helpful in distinguishing between serials with the same title. ISSNs are used in ordering, cataloging, interlibrary loans, and other practices in connection with serial literature.

Categories

Objects identifiers, Publishing and print

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

AutoType benchmark

issn

Bioregistry

issn

Schema.org

issn

python-stdnum

stdnum.issn

Wikidata

P236

Quality

80/100 · missing: anchored regexp, negative example, translation

Metacrafter rules

5 rules (2 by field name, 3 by value)

issnfield field, common/media.yaml
issnvalue data, common/media.yaml
issnvaluewithoutdash data, common/objects.yaml
objects_issnfield field, common/objects.yaml
objects_issnvalue data, common/objects.yaml

Supported by tools

Auto-Type, DataPrep, metacrafter, python-stdnum

Regular expression

\d{4}-\d{3}[\dX]|\d{8}

Python re syntax. Not anchored: it can match inside longer text.

Examples

Value	Description
0317-8471	Example ISSN
2049-3630	Example ISSN
03178471	ISSN without hyphen

Child datatypes

ID	Name	Categories	Countries	Description
issn_l	Linking ISSN (ISSN-L) draft	publishing, objectids	global	ISSN chosen to group all media versions (print, online) of one continuing resource. It has the format of an ISSN: two groups of four...

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Serial_Number
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P236

Use this record

Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/issn
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