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2016/05/06

Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI

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Organizational identifiers provide the means for a variety of stakeholders to find and identify an organization accurately and define relationships among its sub-units and with other organizations. This OCLC report focuses on organizational identifiers from the perspective of academic institutions, and outlines several scenarios where the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) can be used to disambiguate organizations, including real-world examples.