Xiaoli Li [email protected] University of California Davis 3/14/20121CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto.

Xiaoli Li [email protected]

University of California Davis

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What is ISNI? ISNI organization ISNI database Role ISNI plays in information discovery Implications for East Asian Libraries

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3/14/2012CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto 3http://www.bowker.com/assets/literature/products/isni_datasheet.pdf

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ISNI identifies public identities used publically by parties“involved throughout the chain of creation, production, management, and distribution of intellectual and artistic contents.”

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PartiesParties

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1st Public Identity: Mei Lan ( 梅澜 , 梅瀾 )

2nd Public Identity: Mei Lanfang ( 梅兰芳 , 梅蘭芳 )

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Links between ISNIs related to the same Party

ISNI Registration Authority (RA) operated by the ISNI International Agency (IA) ISNI’s administration and governance building and maintaining the ISNI database

ISNI Registration Agencies (RAG) provide services to the users serve as interfaces between the users and the RA ProQuest/Bowker is the tester for this role

Assignment Agency (AA) operates a centralized matching tool guaranteeing the

uniqueness of ISNI numbers and assigns new ISNIs OCLC (in Leiden) is the AA

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AdministrationAdministration

Customer ServiceCustomer Service

Technical supportTechnical support

ISNI database will be established in two stages

Initial phase (in progress) Data contributed by founding members (at least 20 million

unique names) ISNI Assignment Agency verifies identities using VIAF developed

matching tool Two national libraries (British and French) provide quality

assurance tests

Ongoing assignment (coming soon) Registration Agencies process ISNI requests in batch or single

mode ISNI Assignment Agency processes requests using matching tool

and assigns new ISNIs

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ISNI Registration Authority

Janifer G. and Joep K., ISNI from Development to Operations, Dec. 2011. http://www.isni.org/docs/isni_operations.pdf

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Metadata Set

ISNI: 0000000122841810 Name: 张艺谋Date of Birth: 1951Title : Hong gao liangCreation Class: Language material, Musical sound recording, Projected mediumCreation Role: director

Libraries subfield $0 in bibliographic records

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024 field in authority records 024 7# $a 000000012104844X $2 isni

Publishers, rights management organizations, search engines, etc. ISNI will be universally embedded in product and work metadata

Other initiatives (NISO’s I2, ORCID, etc.)

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Role ISNI Plays in Information Role ISNI Plays in Information DiscoveryDiscovery

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Play an active role in advocating the contribution to and the adoption of the ISNI system among the following organizations in China, Japan, and Korea:

National libraries Publishers Information service providers

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Partner with LC, NLC, and PCC to find a solution to differentiate the non-unique CJK personal name headings.

Reason: Undifferentiated personal name authority records are rejected by VIAF since they do not refer to a unique entity. As a result, they are not included in the ISNI database.

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Promote the use of ISNI at your institution Reason: ISNI is an enabler for linked metadata

applications

Educate library users Reason: ISNI will be universally embedded in

multiple databases and domains beyond the library community

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Will ISNI affect the nature of authority work? Differentiating parties and creating identifiers vs.heading formulation CJK scripts vs. romanized characters

How about the concept of “preferred name heading”? Will it still be necessary given that ISNI can link multiple identities of the same Party?

Yip Wai-Lim vs. Ye Weilian

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http://www.isni.org/ (ISNI website)

http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=44292 (ISO website)

http://isni.oclc.nl/ (ISNI database website)

http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2010/2010-06.html (MARC Proposal on “Encoding the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats”)

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