Identifiers As MetadataNISO-BISG Forum

June 2017

ALA

Alphabet Soup

u ISBN

u ISSN

u DOI

u ISRC/ISWC

u ISAN

u ISTC

u ISNI

ISBNInternational Standard Book Number

The ISBN story

From Here to Bookland

E-ISBN

ISSNInternational Standard Serial Number

A Trend Begins

Simpler Is Better

For Every Kitten, There Is An Equal and Opposite UnKitten

DOIDigital Object Identifer

Everything’s On the Web

Back to Smart Numbers

ISRC/ISWCInternational Standard Recording Code/International Standard Work Code

Musical Interlude

Smartening Up

ISANInternational Standard Audio-Visual Number

Let’s Go To The Movies

Another Smart Set

ISTCInternational Standard Text Code

It Doesn’t Always Stick

Governance

Now What?

ISNIInternational Standard Name Identifier

Identifying Creators

Bridging Systems

Show me an example

A common name, disabiguated, with various non-English renderings

Show me an example

An individual who has created works across various media (music, books)

Show me an example

Disambiguating identical names shared by multiple people

How It Works

ISNI International Agency

Assignment Agency

Registration Agency

Clients Clients

Registration Agency

Clients Clients

ISNI-US.com

Resources

u NISO – http://www.niso.org

u BISG – http://www.bisg.org

u ISBN registration agencies – https://www.isbn-international.org/agencies

u ISSN RAs – http://www.issn.org/the-centre-and-the-network/members-countries/the-issn-network-today/

u DOI RAs - http://www.doi.org/registration_agencies.html

u ISRC RAs - https://www.usisrc.org/managers/index.html

u ISAN RAs - http://www.isan.org/agencies/appointed.html

u ISTC RAs – http://www.istc-international.org/registration.aspx

u ISNI RAs - http://www.isni.org/content/isni-registration-agencies