Optimising ISNI for the Identification of Organizations

On 8 May 2018, ISNI held a briefing and outreach webinar entitled Optimising ISNI for the Identification of Organizations. The well-attended virtual meeting explored aspects of ISNI’s ongoing work to establish an Organizations Registry alongside its repository of person-related information in the global ISNI database. ISNI’s involvement in this area is not new, and to date over 700,000 ISNI identifiers have been assigned to organizational entities (out of a total of more than 10 million ISNIs assigned to date).

The webinar focused on two areas – establishing and verifying the need for a dedicated registry, and taking concrete steps to maximize the usefulness of the resource, initially for the scholarly and related communities. A copy of the webinar presentation is available from ISNI Executive Director, Tim Devenport.