[DCRM-L] Noun for identifying a physical unit independently from the bibliographic items(s) or portions of an item it contains

[Will Evans]

FUI (Folger Unique Identifier; pronounced “phooey”?)

Best,
Will

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Will Evans

National Endowment for the Humanities

Chief Librarian in Charge of Technical Services

Library of the Boston Athenaeum

10 1/2 Beacon Street

Boston, MA   02108

On Friday, November 17, 2017, Erin Blake <EBlake at folger.edu> wrote:

> 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?
>
> 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 *Folgerpedia* under "Why we can't use
> Voyager's 'Bound With' function for vault books
> <https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Sammelbands#Why_we_can.27t_use_Voyager.27s_.22Bound_With.22_function_for_vault_books>"
> for why a three-title sammelband [sic] has three item IDs, not one).
>
> I don't want to use "Object Identifier
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_identifier>" or "Persistent Object
> Identifier <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_Object_Identifier>"
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> If there isn't a suitable generic name for [Identifier TBA], I will need
> to make one up. Possibilities that come to mind:
>
>    1. FPO_ID for "Folger Physical Object Identifier" (but we already use
>    "PO" for the purchase order number associated with vault material
>    2. FOID for "Folger Object Identifier"
>    3. FVIN for "Folger Vault Inventory Number"
>    4. FU for "Folger Unit" (well, okay, I'd be *tempted* to call them
>    eff-yoos, but wouldn't actually do it)
>
>
>
> Thanks for helping me think this through,
>
>
>
> Erin.
>
>
>
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