The Book Item and Component Identifier, or BICI, is a draft standard of the United States
National Information Standards Organization
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO; ) is a United States non-profit standards organization that develops, maintains and publishes technical standards related to publishing, bibliographic and library applications. It was found ...
(NISO) that would provide a unique identifier for items or components within a book or publication to which an
International Standard Book Number
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier that is intended to be unique. Publishers purchase ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency.
An ISBN is assigned to each separate edition a ...
(ISBN) has been assigned. It is related to the
Serial Item and Contribution Identifier
The Serial Item and Contribution Identifier (SICI) was a code (ANSI/NISO standard Z39.56-1996 2002 used to uniquely identify specific volumes, articles or other identifiable parts of a serial. It was "intended primarily for use by those member ...
(SICI).
External links
NISO page for BICINISO draft standard for BICISICI and BICI: Identifiers for Serials and Books
identifiers
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