Anila AngjeliAnila Angjeli

1The European Library annual meeting, Amsterdam 17 September 2013

Member of the Board of directors of ISNI-International AgencyMember of the Board of directors of ISNI-International Agency

Global, persistent identifierGlobal, persistent identifierbridging identities across domainsbridging identities across domains

Public identitiesPublic identities of parties (of parties (individuals individuals oror organizationsorganizations) )

that create, produce, manage, distribute or feature that create, produce, manage, distribute or feature in creative contentsin creative contents

including writers, artists, creators, performers, researchers, including writers, artists, creators, performers, researchers, producers, publishers, aggregators, and more) producers, publishers, aggregators, and more)

ISO 27729 International Standard Name Identifier ISO 27729 International Standard Name Identifier

forfor

ISNI and librariesISNI and libraries

A simple, unique number, that everyone in the world could use to identify the same person or corporate body!

… an alluring idea, proposed over and over

FRANAR IFLAFRANAR IFLA group charged:

To study the feasibility of an International Standard Authority Data Number

over the past 30 yearsover the past 30 years

14 years ago14 years ago

FRANARFRANAR group recommended:

« IFLA should continue to monitor the progress of efforts of the ISO 27729 ISNI Working Group and the VIAF Project and any potential numbering that may result from those efforts.

IFLA member institutions should also actively seek to influence the ISNI with a view to identifying common purposes with other communities. »

5 years ago5 years ago

ISO 2779:2012 - International Standard Name Identifier

(approved in 2009, published in 2012)

1 year ago1 year ago

ISNI public database LIVE www.isni.org (with 1 million identities)

2 years ago2 years ago

ISNIISNI International AgencyInternational Agency

3 years ago3 years ago

Bibliothèque nationale de France

founding member

Other members: OCLC, ProQuest, CISAC, IFRRO, SCAPR

6,8 million ISNIs assigned

Unique, Persistent, Actionable soon in RDF , and exposed as LOD

NowNow

in library workflows in library workflows example of the National Library of France (BnF)example of the National Library of France (BnF)

Workflows with publishers(Legal deposit)

Bibliographic and authority

products(BnF patrons)

Register of out of commerce

works

Research and discovery(LOD)

Future Links with academic bibliographic resources and others

Future Links with academic bibliographic resources and others

5

Integrated in

database

soon

(in project)

(will use ISNI)

soon

in public view , in RDF dumps

Libraries

Text Rights

Music RightsTrade Sources

Encyclopaedias

Researchers & Professional

cross-domain cross-domain bridging-domains bridging-domains

Other future cultural heritage

sources

FiguresFigures+ % confidence

- % confidence

Assigned ISNIs to VIAF July 2013

5,797,075

Provisional: Unassigned9,563,590

Provisional: Possible580,738

Assigned

6.87 million

Number of data contributors

From VIAF 39

Others 25

Total(in permanent growth)

64

Cross links among sources through local IDs

Over 7,6 million

Governance & control infrastructureGovernance & control infrastructureISNI-IA

ISO Registration Authority(the governing body)

Quality Teamlibraries

ISNI-AAAssignment Agency

(manages the central database)

MemberMember

Registration Agency

Registration Agency

Registration Agency

Registration Agency

Registration Agency

Registration AgencyRegistration

AgencyRegistration

Agency

MemberMember

MemberMember

MemberMember

Enduserinput

enduser

database

ISNI Quality TeamISNI Quality Team

• Samples data regularly – c. 2% VIAF clusters have mixed identities– c. 5% of clusters duplicate

• Makes corrections at cluster level

– Merges, splits, error notifications– Access to cataloguing client / macros

• Makes system recommendations• Gives approval for single source assignment• Responds to End User input

VIAF-ISNI interVIAF-ISNI inter

Monthly updatesMonthly updates

ISNIISNIssReprocessing

after notification

Error notificationsError notifications

Quality Team Quality

control

matching

Assignment

Error detection

VIAF seed database for ISNI

VIAF-ISNI Task ForcePolicy on pseudonyms Study notification work flows Participate in cluster sampling in VIAF and ISNI Help define new anomaly detectors, etc

-relationship-relationship-operability-operability

LinkedLinked

11

ISNI - 0000 0001 2144 7715

Identifiant international : ISNI 0000 0001 2144 7715

Mandela, Nelson (1918-....) forme internationale

From current Non-VIAF sources From current Non-VIAF sources to VIAF clustersto VIAF clusters

•VIAF source links to ISNI => 7.3 VIAF source links to ISNI => 7.3 millionmillion

Links generated Links generated by ISNIby ISNI

Non-VIAFNon-VIAFsourcessources

Libraries in VIAF and in ISNILibraries in VIAF and in ISNI

Quality control

VIAFFederates authority filesNo full coverage of all identities in library catalogues

ISNIIncludes more sourcesConsolidates identities (ID)No sparse recordsNo undifferentiated

Public Identities

How do libraries get ALL the ISNIs they need?

➙ Go through an existing Registration Agency➙ Become a Registration Agency or an ISNI Member

website www.isni.org

(with public access to the database)Search Now

Contact agency@isni.org