ISAN Utility

Craig A. Finseth, fin@finseth.com.

The ISAN Utility program provides a set of source code, working examples, and example identifiers for the ISAN and V-ISAN identifier systems. It provides sample code that you can use to ensure compatability with other ISAN and V-ISAN identifier manipulation systems.

More information on the ISAN and V-ISAN identifier systems can be found at http://www.isan.org and http://www.v-isan.org. The ISAN system is defined in ISO 15706 and the V-ISAN system is defined in ISO 20925.

This RealBasic version provides an excellent starting place for any VisualBasic implementations.

ISAN Utility is provided as free software with no copyright: you are free to use and modify this code in any way that you like. After all, that's the whole point. The following are available:

http://www.finseth.com/isan.html: project overview and JavaScript/ECMAScript version.
http://www.finseth.com/isan.pl: Perl version.
http://www.finseth.com/osx-isanutility.sit: Source code and executable for the Macintosh OSX version.
http://www.finseth.com/os9-isanutility.sit: Source code and executable for the Macintosh OS 9 version.
http://www.finseth.com/win-isanutility.zip: Source code and executable for the Windows version.
http://www.finseth.com/linux-isanutility.zip: Source code and executable for the Linux version.

RealBasic can be obtained from the RealSoftware site. This project uses RealBasic version 5.5.5.

Installation

Installation: just copy the

OS X ISAN Utility,
OS9 ISAN Utility.9,
Windows ISAN Utility.exe
or Linux isan-utility

and the ISAN Utility.html files somewhere convenient and run the program. On Macintosh systems, be sure to use the Finder (or equvalent tool) for the copying.

Version History

1.0, 2004-06-16, first release

1.1, 2006-01-10, second release

fixed check character code
reorganized source, added update menu item
reorganized web site
improved documentation

Working with the Source

Go to Craig Finseth's home page, http://www.finseth.com/.