The International Standard Name Identifier, or ISNI, was created to identify the millions of contributors to creative works and those active in their distribution, including researchers, inventors, writers, artists, visual creators, performers, producers, publishers, aggregators, and more in order to resolve the problem of name ambiguity in search and discovery. Now, Laura Dawson, Product Manager of Identifier Services at Bowker, will show us how ISNI has developed since the standard was first published in 2012. How is it managed? Who receives numbers? What impact has it had on publishing? And how can it be incorporated into current metadata management and distribution?
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1. ISNI Disambiguating Public Identities
2. What Is ISNI ISO Standard, published in 2012 International
Standard Name Identifier Numerical representation of a name 16
digits Assigned to public figures, contributors of content
researchers, authors, musicians, actors, publishers, research
institutions and subjects of that content (if they are people or
institutions). Example: 0000 0004 1029 5439 3. Who is ISNI Founding
members IFRRO (International Federation of Reproduction Rights
Organizations) CISAC (International Confederation of Authors and
Composers Societies) SCAPR (Societies Council for the Collective
Management of Performers Rights) OCLC CENL (Conference of European
National Librarians), represented by the British Library and the
National Library of France ProQuest, represented by Bowker 4.
Members Quality Team Board of Directors ISNI Organizational
Structure Registration Agencies Ongoing assignments/ general public
5. How Does ISNI Registration Work Publisher submits names for
assignment through a Registration Agency RA works with the
publisher to ensure the data feed is well- formatted, and sends
that feed to the Assignment Agency AA assigns as many ISNIs to the
names in the feed as it can, using complex algorithms and business
rules that evolve with each feed AA returns a file of names with
ISNIs attached to them This may not be the full file of names
Ambiguous names are held for review by Quality Team QT assignments
and other exceptions (assignments as a result of improvements to
the algorithm) are returned to RA quarterly Process is not instant.
Assignment may be immediate if the name and other information is
unique, but frequently assignments take a week or two. 6. Stage One
Customer submits data to Registration Agency Registration Agency
sends file to Assignment Agency Assignment Agency assigns as many
ISNIs to the names as it can 7. Stage Two Assignment Agency sends
assigned file to Registration Agency Registration Agency sends
assigned file to Customer Customer reviews, QAs, ingests 8. Stage
Three Assignment Agency sends updates on a monthly basis
Registration Agency disperses files to appropriate Customers
Customers ingest updates 9. Display Only minimal metadata is
displayed Not meant as a comprehensive profile ISNI is a tool for
linking data sets, collocation, and disambiguation Enhancements to
the record can be made but not required 10. Sample Public ISNI
Record 11. ISNI links 10 12. Who is using ISNIs? Wikipedia/Wikidata
VIAF Access Copyright Scholar Universe and Pivot British Library
JISC Musicbrainz Macmillan (Digital Science) Booknet Canada
(piloting) Authors Guild (piloting) 13. Einsteins Wikipedia Page
14. How many names in the ISNI database? Over 8,300,000 assigned
10,112,931 provisional (awaiting a match from another data set for
corroboration) Your author names may well already have ISNIs.
http://www.isni.org/search. Bowkers Books in Print contains 2.33
million ISNIs 33% coverage of all contributors, with more coming in
monthly. 15. Use Case: Publisher 16. Use Case: Research Institution
17. Use Case: University 18. Use Case: Cross-Domain Linking 19. Use
Case: Cross-Domain Linking 20. Data Quality Based on matching names
to existing records in database (over 18 million names) Strict
criteria for assigning ISNIs to names Quality team oversight
(manual edits) British Library National Library of France OCLC 19
21. Assignment Criteria If on the common surname list: Birth date
Death date ISBN(s) Title(s) Co-authors or institutional affiliation
If not on the common surname list Title(s) Birth date Death date
Any other distinguishing factors (is not) If unique Immediate
assignment 20 22. ISNI and ORCID ORCID numbers are a subset of
ISNIs database Working towards alignment, with ultimate goal of
single assignment There is ISNI representation on the ORCID
Technical Steering Group, and ORCID representation on the ISNI
Technical Committee A researcher may have both an ORCID and an ISNI
21 23. If I have an ORCID, do I need an ISNI? Identifier across all
types of works particularly relevant to faculty members in the Arts
and Humanities Assigned by organizations, such as publishers and
universities, on behalf of contributor Link your ORCID and ISNI and
be done no need to create yet another profile 22 24. Do Your
Authors Have ISNIs? 23 25. Online Registration Coming in Q4 2014
Bowker is building functionality to register individual ISNIs
online First for authors who already have ISBNs assigned to them
Phase II includes all contributors Contributors without ISBNs can
continue to register by emailing [email protected] 24 26.
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