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Old 03-28-2009, 01:35 PM   #47
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Do you think that the intended purpose of this is to "globally identify" every book ever created, or simply to provide a unique ID for every book that's likely to be in a user's catalog or on a library system? The latter would be quite straightforward to achieve.
The spec doesn't say. I have been assuming it is for the latter (i.e. to identify a book in a small collection), but, who knows.
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