Professional paper

International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) in the context of authority control

Danijela Getliher orcid.org/0000-0002-8862-8710 ; Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Ana Knežević Cerovski orcid.org/0000-0001-8436-2110 ; Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a new ISO standard that identifies the public identities of contributors to creative works and those active in their distribution. The paper will present the ISNI identifier, the method of assigning the ISNI, ISNI system and membership types with detailed information for data contributors. Data contribution is the most common membership type for national libraries, which they realize through membership in the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF). VIAF and ISNI are two different but complementary systems which collaborate and complement each other, and thus significantly contribute to and extend the concepts of universal bibliographic control and authority control, increase the possibility of identifying unique public identities and, thanks to its long-term infrastructure, provide opportunities for collaboration with other identification systems.

Keywords

ISNI; VIAF; identifiers; authority control; universal bibliographic control

Hrčak ID:

142250

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/142250

Publication date:

16.3.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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