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.

Prefix

isni

License

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0

Links

Homepage

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

Contact

Missing Contact

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 6 mappings to external registries with 4 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 000000012281955X is used to demonstrate the providers available for International Standard Name Identifier. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.