ISSN support

[Éloi Rivard]

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?

[xlcnd]

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.