Xiaoli Li University of California Davis 3/14/20121CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

What is ISNI? ISNI organization ISNI database Role ISNI plays in information discovery Implications for East Asian Libraries 3/14/20122CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

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ISNI International Standard Name Identifier ( ISO 27729) ISNI identifies public identities used publically by partiesinvolved throughout the chain of creation, production, management, and distribution of intellectual and artistic contents. Natsuo Kirino 3/14/20124CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto Parties

3/14/2012CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto5 ISNI: Lee, Mun-Yeol Lee, Mun-yol Li, Moon-Yeul Yi Munyol1948- Yi Munyǒl Li, Wenlie http : // akdong2k.tistory.com/242

3/14/2012CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto6 ISNI 1 ISNI 2 Individual person (Party) st Public Identity: Mei Lan (, ) 2 nd Public Identity: Mei Lanfang (, ) Has stage name Is stage name of Links between ISNIs related to the same Party

ISNI Registration Authority (RA) operated by the ISNI International Agency (IA) ISNIs 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 3/14/20127CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto Administration Customer Service Technical 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 3/14/20128CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

3/14/2012CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto9 ISNI Registration Authority Janifer G. and Joep K., ISNI from Development to Operations, Dec

3/14/2012CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto10 Metadata Set ISNI: Name: Date of Birth: 1951 Title : Hong gao liang Creation Class: Language material, Musical sound recording, Projected medium Creation Role: director Metadata Set ISNI: Name: Date of Birth: 1951 Title : Hong gao liang Creation Class: Language material, Musical sound recording, Projected medium Creation Role: director

Libraries subfield $0 in bibliographic records 110 2# $a Council on East Asian Libraries.$0 (isni) X 024 field in authority records 024 7# $a X $2 isni Publishers, rights management organizations, search engines, etc. ISNI will be universally embedded in product and work metadata Other initiatives (NISOs I 2, ORCID, etc.) 3/14/201211CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

3/14/2012CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto12 Role ISNI Plays in Information Discovery 0,28804, _ _ ,00.html ISNI Zhang, Yimou

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 3/14/2012CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto13

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. 3/14/2012CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto14

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 3/14/2012CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto15

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 3/14/2012CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto16

(ISNI website) e_detail.htm?csnumber=44292 (ISO website) e_detail.htm?csnumber= (ISNI database website) (MARC Proposal on Encoding the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats) 3/14/2012CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto17