This document summarizes a new online tool created for ISMN agencies in the Netherlands. The tool aims to automate common ISMN actions, reduce manual work, build a complete catalog of titles, and be accessible and flexible. It allows publishers to request accounts, pay for ISMN prefixes, add title information in batches using Excel, and pay for assigned ISMN numbers. The agency can oversee publishers and prefixes, activate new accounts, and the public can search the catalog. The conclusion is that the tool automates nearly all actions, creates a full searchable title catalog, and provides a flexible, open source, web-based system for ISMN management.

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A Dutch tool for ISMN-agencies
Davo van Peursen

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If you don’t know about ISMN
and all the benefits of it,
please look at their website.

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The Netherlands were one of the last
European countries to embrace ISMN

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Holland at last?
• No common database available
• No funding available
• To employees available for lots of paper work

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Aims for a new ISMN-tool:
• Handle most common ISMN-actions
• Reducing the manual actions
• Building a complete catalogue
• Accessible and flexible

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So the decision was made:
A new online tool
• Open Source, easy to share
• Web-based, no software needed
• Simple and secure

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A new Web-Portal with 3 entrances
• Publishers
• Agency (the admin)
• Public area

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Publisher asks for an account

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Publishers pays for the prefix

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Agency activates the account

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Publishers are ready to start

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18. Publisher can bring in titles

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Publishers pay for their ISMN

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Publishers can work with a batch

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Publishers can work with a batch
• Download registered works
• Download an empty Excel sheet
• Upload your filled in Excel sheet

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2) Tools for the agency/admin
• Overview on publishers
• Overview on used numbers
• Overview on available prefixes
• Activation of new publishers

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3) Searching the catalogue

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Conclusion:
• Nearly all actions automated
• Full catalogue of all titles
• Open Source and Web-based
• Flexible system

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Contact me:
• davo@mcn.nl
• ISMN newsletter

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This might never happen,
but we did a good try.

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This might never happen,
but we did a good try.
THE NEW
ISMN AGENT

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Thank you!