FUI (Folger Unique Identifier; pronounced “phooey”?)<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Will</div><div><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif"><br></span></u></b></div><div><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<wbr>~~~~</span></u></b><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Will Evans</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">National Endowment for the Humanities </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Chief Librarian in Charge of Technical Services</span><span style="font-size:9pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Library of the Boston Athenaeum</span><span style="font-size:9pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">10 1/2 Beacon Street</span><span style="font-size:9pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style",serif">Boston, MA 02108</span></p><br>On Friday, November 17, 2017, Erin Blake <<a href="mailto:EBlake@folger.edu">EBlake@folger.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can someone help me find an appropriate noun for talking about a machine-generated unique identifier that would name a physical unit, independent of the bibliographic item(s) or portions of an item it contains?
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I don't want to use "Item ID" because I don't want it to be confused with an Item_ID in our OPAC (see
<i>Folgerpedia</i> under "<a href="https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Sammelbands#Why_we_can.27t_use_Voyager.27s_.22Bound_With.22_function_for_vault_books" target="_blank">Why we can't use Voyager's 'Bound With' function for vault books</a>" for why a three-title sammelband [sic]
has three item IDs, not one).<br>
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I don't want to use "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_identifier" target="_blank">Object Identifier</a>" or "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_Object_Identifier" target="_blank">Persistent Object Identifier</a>" because I will be talking with database designers,
and I don't want it to be confused with the key column in a relational database.<br>
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I don't want to use "Call number" or "Shelfmark" because those carry meaning, and because our call numbers for boxed manuscripts refer to a single manuscript: a box with 24 indentures would be signed out on 24 call slips if a researcher wanted to see everything
in the box.<br>
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In other words, I need a name for the unique identifier such that if the box of 24 indentures, a sammelband with three titles, and a four-volume scrapbook were all on a shelf, you could point to them and say "those things each have a [Identifier TBA], for a
total of six [Identifier TBA]s. <br>
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If there isn't a suitable generic name for [Identifier TBA], I will need to make one up. Possibilities that come to mind:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<li style="margin-left:0in">FPO_ID for "Folger Physical Object Identifier" (but we already use "PO" for the purchase order number associated with vault material <u></u><u></u></li><li style="margin-left:0in">FOID for "Folger Object Identifier"<u></u><u></u></li><li style="margin-left:0in">FVIN for "Folger Vault Inventory Number"<u></u><u></u></li><li style="margin-left:0in">FU for "Folger Unit" (well, okay, I'd be
<i>tempted</i> to call them eff-yoos, but wouldn't actually do it) <u></u><u></u></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for helping me think this through,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Erin.<u></u><u></u></p>
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Erin C. Blake, Ph.D. | Head of Collection Information Services | Folger Shakespeare Library | <a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=201+E.+Capitol+St.+SE,+Washington,+DC,+20003&entry=gmail&source=g">201 E. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC, 20003</a> | <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','eblake@folger.edu');" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">eblake@folger.edu</span></a> |
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