What is the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)?
"ISNI is the ISO certified global standard number for identifying the millions of contributors to creative works and those active in their distribution, including researchers, inventors, writers, artists, visual creators, performers, producers, publishers, aggregators, and more. It is part of a family of international standard identifiers that includes identifiers of works, recordings, products and right holders in all repertoires, e.g. DOI, ISAN, ISBN, ISRC, ISSN, ISTC, and ISWC. The mission of the ISNI International Authority (ISNI-IA) is to assign to the public name(s) of a researcher, inventor, writer, artist, performer, publisher, etc. a persistent unique identifying number in order to resolve the problem of name ambiguity in search and discovery; and diffuse each assigned ISNIacross all repertoires in the global supply chain so that every published work can be unambiguously attributed to its creator wherever that work is described.By achieving these goals the ISNI will act as a bridge identifier across multiple domains and become a critical component in Linked Data and Semantic Web applications." (http://www.isni.org)
Mu-Jeong Kho, the Chair of IPEAD (academic affiliation: University College London), gained the ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier): 0000 0004 7144 1890.
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