DANSK DS/ISO 21047 PDF

The purpose of the International Standard Text Code (ISTC) is to enable the efficient identification of textual works. The ISTC provides a means of uniquely and persistently identifying textual works in information systems and of facilitating the exchange of information about those works between authors, agents, publishers, retailers, libraries, rights administrators and other interested parties, on an international level. The ISTC may be applied to any textual work, whenever there is an intention to produce such a work in the form of one or more manifestations. It provides an identification data element for applications that record and exchange information about textual works and related manifestations. For example, the ISTC may be used for the purposes of collocating subsequent manifestations of the same work or derivations of the same work in applications involving electronic rights administration or information retrieval. The ISTC shall not be assigned to manifestations of a textual work, including any physical products (e.g. a printed article) or electronic formats (e.g. an electronic book) based on the content of the work. Textual manifestations are the subject of separate identification systems. Examples of the relationship between an ISTC and other ISO identification systems such as the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) are shown in Annex E. The allocation of an ISTC to a work shall have no meaning or value as legal evidence regarding the copyright status of, or any intellectual property rights in, the work.