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Metadata Update #13 Identifiers

So with all of the excitement of implementing RDA, holidays, lots of snow and going to ALA MidWinter, the Monday Morning blog is getting a little behind!  Better late than never. Today's update is on the role of identifiers in our work.  Here's a nice little article from a Scientific American blogger than briefly discusses why identifiers in general are useful: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/2013/02/07/on-identifiers-doi-isbn-casrn-ssn-issn-etc/ We already know how handy ISBNs and ISSNs are.   In an electronic environment where websites and publishers change from time to time, the introduction of the DOI has been a significant advance.   I wish that a field for the DOI would be introduced into MARC as a core element (where a DOI for an electronic document exists) and that it would be used consistently.   Another type of identifier I wanted to talk about is identifiers for persons, places, organizations, meetings, etc.   In traditional terms, we t