Title: ISNI: consolidating identities, connecting nodes

Authors: Anila Angjeli

Addresses: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Department of Bibliographic and Digital Information, Quai François-Mauriac, 75706 Paris Cedex 13, France

Abstract: International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) uniquely identifies the contributors to creative works to facilitate the seamless interconnection, discovery and aggregation of resources; and to build services around scientific and cultural contents. A certified global standard (ISO 27729), ISNI provides an operational response to a decades-long need in the digital information networks of media culture industries including libraries, rights management societies, publishers, etc. Uniqueness, persistence and trust are ensured by a central database managing identifiers for open, global use, governed by a registration authority, the ISNI-International Agency. ISNI relies on computational methods for disambiguating, matching, merging and splitting, augmented with human curation. ISNI is transforming ways of cooperatively consolidating identities by lifting national, cultural and community barriers.

Keywords: ISNI; International Standard Name Identifier; ISO identifier; persistent identifiers; bridging identifiers; cross-domain identifiers; trust; public identity; identity resolution; authority control; interoperability; VIAF; ORCID; ISO 27729; unique identification; contributor identification; creative works; resource discovery; resource aggregation; scientific content; cultural content.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2014.069534

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2014 Vol.9 No.4, pp.326 - 346

Received: 02 Dec 2013
Accepted: 16 Jun 2014
Published online: 21 May 2015 *

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