ISSN support
azmeuk opened this issue · comments
Hi,
I could not find any mention of ISSN in this repository, so I open this ticket to discuss it. This a ISBN for periodicals.
Is there maybe any plan to support it some day? Should it live on another repository, or are PRs accepted?
Hi,
ISSN is not supported by isbnlib
and it will not be supported in the future! Why? Because despite the similarities in the name, it needs a very different strategy to collect metadata.
However, there are python libraries that validate ISSN (python-stdnum) and fetch metadata (arxiv.py, pubmed-lookup, ... and many others).
Thanks.