Anila Angjeli Bibliothèque nationale de France 1 Webinar on Persistent Identifiers, 25 June 2014 Member of the Board of directors of the ISNI-International Agency ISNI– a bridge PID, a hub of links ISNI – a bridge PID, a hub of links

Public identities of parties individuals or organizations that create, produce, manage, distribute or feature in creative contents including writers, artists, creators, performers, researchers, producers, publishers, aggregators, and more e.g.: ISNI  Universal scope  Unique  Persistent  Centrally managed  Expressed as HTTP URI, e.g.:  Expressed as HTTP URI, e.g.: ISO International Standard Name Identifier for

Central database - Trust + % confidence - % confidence Provisional: Unassigned 9+ Million Provisional: Possible ≈638,000 Assigned ≈ 8 million Assignment is curated AuthoritativeUniqueTrustfulPersistent Assignment only if confident Publicly accessible Matching algorithms Data sampling Anomaly checks Quality assurance processes End User input notes

Figures … in growth 42 VIAF sources 30 other data contributors publishers, rights management societies, professional and research societies, universities, trade sources Nov 2011: 15 data sources June 2014: DatabasesAssigned Research12834,128 Text rights6129,482 Music5315,714 Libraries & trade46.8 million Organisations3446, 227  + Data sources Number of ISNIs assigned Nov 2011: 1 million June 2014:7,98 million by category

Sources … in growth RIGHTS MANAGEMENT Access Copyright, CanadaACCE Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, UK ALCS Centrum Dienstverlening Auteurs- en aanverwante Rechten, Netherlands CEDA Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos CEDR Irish Copyright Licensing AgencyICLA Prolitteris, SwitzerlandPROL VG WORT, GermanyVGWO MUSIC American Musicological SocietyAMS British Library Sound ArchiveBLSA International Performers’ Database Association IPDA MusicBrainzMUBZ RESEARCHERS AND PROFESSIONALS American Musicological SocietyAMS Authors GuildAGLD British Library ThesesBRTH Digital Author identifier, NetherlandsDAI Jisc Names Project, UKJNAM La Trobe UniversityAU:VLU Modern Languages AssociationMLA OCLC ThesesOCLCT ORCID and DataCite Interoperability Network ODIN AuthorClaim and RePecOPENL Proquest ThesesPROQ Scholar Universe, ProquestSCHU Electronic tables of contentZETO ORGANISATIONS American Chemical SocietyACS Boekenbank, BelgiumBOEK Bowker PublishersBOWP Publishers Licensing Society, UKPLS RinggoldRING GENERAL SOURCES Bowker Books in PrintBOWKER The European Library (48 national libraries) TEL Virtual International Authority File (33 libraries) VIAF

Sources … in growth + Zagreb & Perseus

Libraries Text Rights Music Rights Trade Sources Encyclopaedias Researchers & Professional, Theses & Articles databases, Granting organizations ISNI diffusion to Data Sources Linked Data Value Chain Archives, museums, (cultural heritage) “identifier hub” enables

Local IDs (each institution system has its own local ID) GND (Germany DNB + cooperative) IdRef (French universitites cooperative) International Standard Global Cross-domain IPI International CISAC authors/compo sers IPD International IPDA performers International IDs focused on specific communities of users Layers of identifiers for authors and other contributors IDs operating at regional or consortium level DAI (Netherlands) ORCID researchers VIAF ID libraries + Publishers Rights management (performers) French universities’ libraries Research institutios French public libraries + ARK ID (authority files) NACO (LC + cooperative) Dutch institutions Rights management (authors, composers) German libraries + Rights management (text) NACO member libraries EXAMPLESEXAMPLES A vision that is becoming reality

A hub of links ≈16 million cross-links among data sources Linking through IDs Clickable whenever available as URIs Linking through IDs Clickable whenever available as URIs Monitored crowdsourcing

Governance & control infrastructure Governance & control infrastructure ISNI-IA ISO Registration Authority (the governing body) Quality Team libraries data ISNI-AA Assignment Agency (manages the central database) Member Registration Agency Member Enduser input enduser database

Samples data regularly Samples data regularly – Checks for mixed identities and duplications Makes corrections Makes corrections – Merges, splits – Error notifications (Access to cataloguing client / macros) Makes system recommendations Makes system recommendations Responds to End User input Responds to End User input (monitors crowdsourcing) ISNI Quality Team as Assignment Agency data curation the corner stone of the system Processes data algorithmically Processes data algorithmically R&D R&D Experts ISNI data quality policy :

12 ISNI in workflows Bibliothèque nationale de France use case 1+ Million ISNIs ingested Goal: full coverage of Authority records (part of Authority control work – ongoing process)

13 Linked data ISNI through bibliographic data supply : libraries, publishers + other stakeholders of supply chain, rights management societies, etc.) in workflows: BnF + France use case ISNI is diffused to BnF patrons

14 Linked data ISNI Bibliographic data supply to BnF patrons Digitize in full respect of IP rights Rights management Identify researchers interconnect authority files and other datasets Research domain Publishing industry Identify authors before publication Streamline workflows in workflows: BnF + France use case Cultural heritage data on the web Interconnect datasets Notoriety of French identities on the web Joconde etc.

ean-jacques_rousseau/ ISNI n-Jacques_Rousseau ISNI ISNI Trustfully linking datasets Universities’ Union Catalog Authority file LOD service Other French cultural datasets

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