Re: Laundry list for NGC (long post) -- How does Koha measure up?

From: "Lynn Reynish" <lreynish <at> RPL.REGINA.SK.CA>
> This does sound like a great project. However, I will note that ISBN is
> probably not enough if you want to include CDs and DVDs - most of which
> don't have ISBNs. Amazon uses an ASIN for these items but I'm not sure if
> there are any widespread standard numbers in use for CDs or DVDs outside
> of mainstream Western classical/pop/rock music (which often has a music
> number). ISBNs have their own problems of course - but at least they exist
> for a lot of items.

Would using the UPC/EAN-code be an alternative? If we then converted all
ISBN-10 to ISBN-13, which in fact is identical to the EAN, we'd end up with
the same style of numbers for all objects, regardless of format (book, CD,
DVD and so on). All pictures would be stored by their EAN-code.

/Anders