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 ISNI across all repertoires in the global supply chain so that every published work can be unambiguously attributed to its creator wherever that work is described.

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isni
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Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in International Standard Name Identifier should match this regular expression:
^[0-9]{15}[0-9X]{1}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
000000012281955X   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from International Standard Name Identifier should match this regular expression:
^isni:[0-9]{15}[0-9X]{1}$

Example CURIE
isni:000000012281955X
Metaregistry International Standard Name Identifier

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 3 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
Biolink Biolink Model Registry logo biolink isni
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam isni
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t isni
Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE isni:000000012281955X is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name Metaprefix URI
International Standard Name Identifier isni http://www.isni.org/isni/000000012281955X
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/isni:000000012281955X
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/isni:000000012281955X
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/isni:000000012281955X