1. Re-using VIAF Data : ISNI International Standard Name Identifier Janifer Gatenby, EMEA Program Manager Metadata, OCLC Pauline Chougnet, BnF, ISNI Quality Team VIAF Workshop, OCLC EMEA, Strasbourg, 25/02/2013

2. Libraries Text Rights Music Rights Trade Sources Encyclopaedias Researchers & Professional

3. VIAF-ISNI relationship Monthly updates ISNI s Reprocessing after notification Error notifications Quality Team Quality control matching Assignment Error detection

4. ISNI Brings to VIAF ISNIs Quality improvement – merges, corrections, splits – QT, sampling, algorithms – End user input Links & Diffusion Information – Common names – Unique names

5. Provisional: Unassigned 9,291,244 Provisional: Possible 948,990 Assigned 6.64 million Assigned ISNIs February 2013 2 + independent sources 2,504,185 3+ VIAF sources 658,813 Unique name 3,455,415 Single source (JISC names) 18,503 Total 6,636,916 Assigned ISNIs to VIAF February 2013 2 + independent sources2,421,127 3+ VIAF sources658,813 Unique name2,945,854 Single source (JISC names)0 Total6,025,794

6. Assigned

7. ISNI & VIAF: complementarity Goals – VIAF clusters and makes authority data visible – ISNI Standard, unique, persistent identifier Bridges domains Key role in services around scientific and cultural contents Data in ISNI – No uniform titles, no meetings, geographic etc. – No sparse records – No undifferentiated records

8. Libraries Text Rights Music Rights Trade Sources Encyclopaedias Researchers & Professional

9. 7 million NEW LINKS to & from VIAF Linked Data: isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/ bnfdnblcntanukatwkpAll VIAF Text Rights Sources 123,964 assigned 37.38325.17772.96083.49832.18414.935406.178 Research & Professl 404,272 assigned 24.14114.68876.98630.52616.7303.465223.305 Music Sources 189,000 assigned 27.54233.99738.21813.5608.67519.700207.231 Trade sources 2.4 million assigned 570.224384.2302.138.955741.671442.037138.6366.100.349 Totals 659.290458.0922.327.119869.255499.626176.7366.937.063

10. New Research links; Resource derived Research links; Resource derived Professional Association links; Creator & organisation derived Professional Association links; Creator & organisation derived Research links; Organisation derived Research links; Organisation derived Existing Wiki links Crowd sourced Wiki links Crowd sourced Search engine Harvests Search engine Harvests Inter-library links; Primarily resource derived Inter-library links; Primarily resource derived Research

11. Existing New Music MusicBrainz links Crowd sourced MusicBrainz links Crowd sourced Rights links Creator & publisher derived Rights links Creator & publisher derived Record Labels & Music Trade Resource & creator derived Record Labels & Music Trade Resource & creator derived BL Sound Archive links Resource derived BL Sound Archive links Resource derived Wiki links Crowd sourced Wiki links Crowd sourced Search Engine Harvests Search Engine Harvests Inter-library links; Primarily resource derived Inter-library links; Primarily resource derived

12. Why become an ISNI member? Cross domain quality links – linking authors of theses, articles, books +++ Importance in digitisation projects Full coverage of ISNI for national identities Bridge identifier – e.g. VIAF to ORCID via ISNI Participation in Quality Access to full database Statistics & quality reports