Technical Documentation

The documents below support ISNI Members and Registration Agencies in their interaction with the ISNI database. 

Documents relating to Data Submissions

ISNI Database source profiles RAG information (PDF, 165 KB)

ISNI Bulk load submission (PDF, 142 KB)

ISNI Batch load quality procedures (PDF, 144 KB)

ISNI Profile information (PDF, 126 KB)

ISNI Data element values (PDF, 507 KB)

ISNI Web interface usage guidelines (PDF, 3,360 KB)

ISNI Web interface search guidelines (PDF, 736 KB)

ISNI Data contribution tab delimited format persons (PDF, 231 KB)

ISNI Data contribution tab delimited format organisation (PDF, 161 KB)

ISNI AtomPub API guidelines (PDF, 1,227 KB)

ISNI AtomPub quality procedures (PDF, 130 KB)

ISNI AtomPub Request XSD: XSD (157 KB); HTML

 

Documents relating to Submission Output

Assignment and matching in ISNI (PDF, 152 KB)

ISNI Data contributors reports and notification guidelines (PDF, 380 KB)

Bulk Load assigned ISNIs XSD:  XSD (10 KB) ; HTML

Bulk Load ISNI not assigned XSD:  XSD (8 KB) ; HTML

Bulk Load ISNI too many matches XSD: XSD (8 KB); HTML

ISNI notification XSD: XSD (11 KB); HTML

ISNI Atom Pub response XSD: XSD (40 KB); HTML

 

Documents relating to Database Enquiry

ISNI SRU search API guidelines (PDF, 305 KB)

ISNI Enquiry response XSD:  XSD (48 KB) ; HTML

 

Documents relating to Data Downloads

ISNI Database Extract XSD: XSD (39 KB) ; HTML