Kickstarting ISNI adoption in trade publishing

For the past couple of years, the British Library has been working with a small group of publishers and other organisations involved in the metadata supply chain for the UK book industry to explore options for including ISNIs in publisher’s standard product metadata. The results so far have been encouraging, linking ISNIs into around 70% of names contained in publishers’ current databases. Next steps will also include exploring options for establishing sustainable workflows for ongoing assignment of ISNIs to new authors.