references in the web to paper documents.  Edward Vielmetti (
Tue, 12 Nov 91 23:14:28 -0500  Message-Id: <> Subject:
references in the web to paper documents. Date: Tue, 12 Nov 91
23:14:28 -0500 From: Edward Vielmetti <>  I will be using the
format  <a href=isbn:0-13-484080-1> Carl Malamud's "Stacks" </a>
to handle references to books.  The hope (such as it is) is that
a browser will be able to take the isbn magic cookie and feed it
into a library on-line catalog and get a meaningful result back.
If there has been an SGML coding proposed or in use for MARC
format records that would be the appropriate way to return the
results. I don't have MARC details on-line, but that's OK since
most library on-line catalogs don't yet give you access to raw
cards.  Until there's an isbn-to-www gateway they're still quite
useful as absolute reference markers, easy to get the full
cataloging information that way.  Similar treatment is expected
for issn (serials) numbers.  In some distant far-off future
electronic serials an