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| List | Code | Heading | Add | Mod | Dep | ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Product identifier type Used with <ProductIDType> <b221> |
✽ | ||||
| 5 | 01 | Proprietary product ID scheme For example, a publisher’s or wholesaler’s product number or SKU. Note that a distinctive <IDTypeName> is required with proprietary identifiers |
70 | ✽ | ||
| 5 | 02 | ISBN-10 International Standard Book Number, pre-2007 (10 digits, or 9 digits plus X, without spaces or hyphens) – now Deprecated in ONIX for Books, except where providing historical information for compatibility with legacy systems. It should only be used in relation to products published before 2007 – when ISBN-13 superseded it – and should never be used as the ONLY identifier (it should always be accompanied by the correct GTIN-13 / ISBN-13) |
14 | 11 | ✽ | |
| 5 | 03 | GTIN-13 GS1 Global Trade Item Number, formerly known as EAN article number (13 digits, without spaces or hyphens) |
39 | ✽ | ||
| 5 | 04 | UPC UPC product number (12 digits, without spaces or hyphens) |
✽ | |||
| 5 | 05 | ISMN-10 International Standard Music Number, pre-2008 (M plus nine digits, without spaces or hyphens) – now Deprecated in ONIX for Books, except where providing historical information for compatibility with legacy systems. It should only be used in relation to products published before 2008 – when ISMN-13 superseded it – and should never be used as the ONLY identifier (it should always be accompanied by the correct GTIN-12 / ISMN-13) |
14 | 12 | ✽ | |
| 5 | 06 | DOI Digital Object Identifier (variable length and character set, beginning ‘10.’ and without https://doi.org/ or the older http://dx.doi.org/) |
✽ | |||
| 5 | 13 | LCCN Library of Congress Control Number in normalized form (up to 12 characters, alphanumeric) |
1 | ✽ | ||
| 5 | 14 | GTIN-14 GS1 Global Trade Item Number (14 digits, without spaces or hyphens) |
1 | 9 | ✽ | |
| 5 | 15 | ISBN-13 International Standard Book Number, from 2007 (13 digits starting 978 or 9791–9799, without spaces or hyphens) |
4 | 39 | ✽ | |
| 5 | 17 | Legal deposit number The number assigned to a publication as part of a national legal deposit process |
7 | ✽ | ||
| 5 | 22 | URN Uniform Resource Name: note that in trade applications an ISBN must be sent as a GTIN-13 and, where required, as an ISBN-13 – it should not be sent as a URN |
8 | 9 | ✽ | |
| 5 | 23 | OCLC number A unique number assigned to a bibliographic item by OCLC |
9 | ✽ | ||
| 5 | 24 | Co-publisher’s ISBN-13 An ISBN-13 assigned by a co-publisher. The ‘main’ ISBN sent with <ProductIDType> codes 03 and/or 15 should always be the ISBN that is used for ordering from the supplier identified in <SupplyDetail>. However, ISBN rules allow a co-published title to carry more than one ISBN. The co-publisher should be identified in an instance of the <Publisher> composite, with the applicable <PublishingRole> code |
9 | ✽ | ||
| 5 | 25 | ISMN-13 International Standard Music Number, from 2008 (13-digit number starting 9790, without spaces or hyphens) |
12 | 39 | ✽ | |
| 5 | 26 | ISBN-A Actionable ISBN, in fact a special DOI incorporating the ISBN-13 within the DOI syntax. Begins ‘10.978.’ or ‘10.979.’ and includes a / character between the registrant element (publisher prefix) and publication element of the ISBN, eg 10.978.000/1234567. Note the ISBN-A should always be accompanied by the ISBN itself, using <ProductIDType> codes 03 and/or 15 |
17 | ✽ | ||
| 5 | 27 | JP e-code E-publication identifier controlled by JPOIID’s Committee for Research and Management of Electronic Publishing Codes. 20 alphanumeric characters, without spaces, beginning with the ISBN ‘registrant element’ |
17 | 67 | ✽ | |
| 5 | 28 | OLCC number Unique number assigned by the Chinese Online Library Cataloging Center (see http://olcc.nlc.gov.cn) |
18 | ✽ | ||
| 5 | 29 | JP Magazine ID Japanese magazine identifier, similar in scope to ISSN but identifying a specific issue of a serial publication. Five digits to identify the periodical, plus a hyphen and two digits to identify the issue |
21 | ✽ | ||
| 5 | 30 | UPC-12+5 Used only with comic books and other products which use the UPC extension to identify individual issues or products. Do not use where the UPC-12 itself identifies the specific product, irrespective of any 5-digit extension – use code 04 instead |
29 | ✽ | ||
| 5 | 31 | BNF Control number Numéro de la notice bibliographique BNF |
31 | ✽ | ||
| 5 | 34 | ISSN-13 International Standard Serial Number expressed as a GTIN-13, with optional 2- or 5-digit barcode extension (ie 13, 15 or 18 digits starting 977, without spaces or hyphens, with <BarcodeType> codes 02, 12 or 05), and only when the extended ISSN is used specifically as a product identifier (ie when the two publisher-defined ‘variant’ digits within the ISSN-13 itself and/or the 2- or 5-digit barcode extension are used to identify a single issue of a serial publication for separate sale). Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later |
66 | 67 | ✽ | |
| 5 | 35 | ARK Archival Resource Key, as a URL (including the address of the ARK resolver provided by eg a national library) |
36 | ✽ |
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