ABOUT ISNI
ISNI is the ISO certified global standard number for identifying 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. As ISO 27729, it is part of a family of international standard identifiers that includes identifiers of works, recordings, products and right holders in all repertoires, e.g. DOI, ISAN, ISBN, ISRC, ISSN, and ISWC.
The mission of the ISNI International Agency (ISNI-IA) is to assign to the public name(s) of a researcher, inventor, writer, artist, performer, publisher, etc. a persistent unique identifying number in order to resolve the problem of name ambiguity in search and discovery; and diffuse each assigned ISNI across all repertoires in the global supply chain so that every published work can be unambiguously attributed to its creator wherever that work is described.
By achieving these goals, the ISNI will act as a bridge identifier across multiple domains and become a critical component in Linked Data and Semantic Web applications.
KEY STATISTICS
11.51 million
ISNI holds public records of over 11.51 million identities
10.45 million
ISNI holds public records of over 10.45 million individuals (of which 2.91 million are researchers)
1,062,333
ISNI holds public records of over 1,062,333 organizations
56 sources
The ISNI database is a cross-domain resource with direct contributions from 56 sources
NEWS
ISNI for the publishing supply chain
For the past couple of years, the British Library, in its role as an ISNI Registration Agency, has been working with a small Working Group of publishers and other...
READ MORENew consortium joins ISNI
The newest consortium to join ISNI consists of the Legal Deposit Libraries of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland: