marcellmars/LodestoneIntroduction

## LodestoneIntroduction
The need and then creation of a system to identify every particular book in an archive or repository has a long history.  An invention and iterative development of a card catalog, as we know it today,  a universal discrete machine which stores, processes and transfers data[^paper_machines] took several centuries. However, only in late 1960. when computer technology began to become an important part of trade publishers came up with a standardized numeric identifier (ISBN[^isbn]) describing (only) a geographical or language area, publisher and a specific edition and title of the book.

It's hard to imagine a book today which is not prepared and processed as a digital file before it gets published. Still, unique book identifier in use is created by bureaucracy (for bureaucracy) and as a consequence it only reflects book's context related to commerce - nothing else.

Today's available digital books are coming from many different sources: a comprehensive scanning projects like Internet archive, National Library of Norway[^nbnu], community driven repositories like Library Genesis, Aaaaarg.org, Monoskop.org, Ubu.com or commercial providers like Amazon, Google or Apple.

There are many contextual information already embedded in the content of every digital book which could improve and optimize digital book's file storage (detection of duplicates), network transfer (detection of network peers), classification, topic clustering, language analysis and many more. We propose a different kind of unique digital book identifier which will embed and carry much more of its relevant context than what is the case with existing ones.

[^paper_machines]:Krajewski, Markus. Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929. Translated by Peter Krapp. The MIT Press, 2011.

[^isbn]:“ISBN Information - History of the ISBN System.” Accessed May 5, 2015. http://isbn-information.com/history-of-the-isbn-system.html.

[^nbnu]:“What Is Being Digitized? - Nasjonalbiblioteket.” Accessed May 5, 2015. http://www.nb.no/English/The-Digital-Library/What-is-being-digitized.
	The need and then creation of a system to identify every particular book in an archive or repository has a long history. An invention and iterative development of a card catalog, as we know it today, a universal discrete machine which stores, processes and transfers data[^paper_machines] took several centuries. However, only in late 1960. when computer technology began to become an important part of trade publishers came up with a standardized numeric identifier (ISBN[^isbn]) describing (only) a geographical or language area, publisher and a specific edition and title of the book.

	It's hard to imagine a book today which is not prepared and processed as a digital file before it gets published. Still, unique book identifier in use is created by bureaucracy (for bureaucracy) and as a consequence it only reflects book's context related to commerce - nothing else.

	Today's available digital books are coming from many different sources: a comprehensive scanning projects like Internet archive, National Library of Norway[^nbnu], community driven repositories like Library Genesis, Aaaaarg.org, Monoskop.org, Ubu.com or commercial providers like Amazon, Google or Apple.

	There are many contextual information already embedded in the content of every digital book which could improve and optimize digital book's file storage (detection of duplicates), network transfer (detection of network peers), classification, topic clustering, language analysis and many more. We propose a different kind of unique digital book identifier which will embed and carry much more of its relevant context than what is the case with existing ones.

	[^paper_machines]:Krajewski, Markus. Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929. Translated by Peter Krapp. The MIT Press, 2011.

	[^isbn]:“ISBN Information - History of the ISBN System.” Accessed May 5, 2015. http://isbn-information.com/history-of-the-isbn-system.html.

	[^nbnu]:“What Is Being Digitized? - Nasjonalbiblioteket.” Accessed May 5, 2015. http://www.nb.no/English/The-Digital-Library/What-is-being-digitized.