ISNI Working Group Meeting

BISG's ISNI Working Group meets quarterly via Zoom. The working group focuses on bringing people together to work towards the adoption of ISNI in the US market.

"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." —ISNI.org

ISNI provides users with the ability to identify a creator, author, or contributor using a unique sixteen-digit identifier. An ISNI identifier can be included in metadata and communicated to trading partners looking to disambiguate authors or contributors with the same (or similar) names. An ISNI can also be used to help identify works done by a single author under different names. Effective management of ISNIs is helpful to the workflows of publishers, retailers, and other stakeholders in the book industry. 

This working group reports to the Metadata Committee. A meeting invitation with a Zoom link has been sent to all working group members; an agenda and materials will be distributed prior to the meeting. If you have any specific topics or ideas you'd like to discuss during the meeting, please feel free to share them in advance.