This presentation was provided by Laura Dawson of HBO during the 11th Annual NISO-BISG Forum, Ensuring the Integrated Information Experience, held on June 23, 2017 at ALA in Chicago

1. Identifiers As Metadata
NISO-BISG Forum
June 2017
ALA

2. Alphabet Soup
u ISBN
u ISSN
u DOI
u ISRC/ISWC
u ISAN
u ISTC
u ISNI

3. ISBN
International Standard Book Number

4. The ISBN story

5. From Here to Bookland

6. E-ISBN

7. ISSN
International Standard Serial Number

8. A Trend Begins

9. Simpler Is Better

10. For Every Kitten, There Is An Equal and
Opposite UnKitten

11. DOI
Digital Object Identifer

12. Everything’s On the Web

13. Back to Smart Numbers

14. ISRC/ISWC
International Standard Recording Code/International Standard Work Code

15. Musical Interlude

16. Smartening Up

17. ISAN
International StandardAudio-Visual Number

18. Let’s Go To The Movies

19. Another Smart Set

20. ISTC
International Standard Text Code

21. It Doesn’t Always Stick

22. Governance

23. Now What?

24. ISNI
International Standard Name Identifier

25. Identifying Creators

26. Bridging Systems

28. Show me an example
A common name, disabiguated, with various non-English renderings

29. Show me an example
An individual who has created works across various media (music, books)

30. Show me an example
Disambiguating identical names shared by multiple people

31. How It Works
ISNI International Agency
Assignment Agency
Registration Agency
Clients Clients
Registration Agency
Clients Clients

33. ISNI-US.com

34. Resources
u NISO – http://www.niso.org
u BISG – http://www.bisg.org
u ISBN registration agencies – https://www.isbn-international.org/agencies
u ISSN RAs – http://www.issn.org/the-centre-and-the-network/members-
countries/the-issn-network-today/
u DOI RAs - http://www.doi.org/registration_agencies.html
u ISRC RAs - https://www.usisrc.org/managers/index.html
u ISAN RAs - http://www.isan.org/agencies/appointed.html
u ISTC RAs – http://www.istc-international.org/registration.aspx
u ISNI RAs - http://www.isni.org/content/isni-registration-agencies