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The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an identifier system for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, television programmes, and newspaper articles. Such an identifier consists of 16 digits.
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 ...
What is ISNI? ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) is an ISO standard, in use by numerous libraries, publishers, databases, and rights management organizations around the world. It is used to uniquely identify persons and organizations involved in creative activities, as well as public personas of both, such as pseudonyms, stage names ...
ISBN. The International Standard Book Number ( ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier that is intended to be unique. [a] [b] Publishers purchase or receive ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency. [2]
International Standard Serial Number, a unique eight-digit number used to identify a print or electronic periodical publication. International Standard Name Identifier, a unique sixteen-digit number used to identify the public identities of contributors to media content.
ISNI means the International Standard Name Identifier. Who uses ISNI? It is primarily used by anyone involved in the content/media value chain, digital or physical, such as libraries, publishers, producers of music or films, bibliographic services, Rights Management Organizations, search engines, online stores, data aggregators, etc.
