The ISNI and Its Role in Information Discovery in a Multilingual Digital Environment

1. The ISNI and Its Role in Information Discovery in a Multilingual Digital Environment Xiaoli Li xlli@ucdavis.edu University of California Davis CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

2. Outline • What is ISNI? • ISNI organization • ISNI database • Role ISNI plays in information discovery • Implications for East Asian Libraries CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

3. What is ISNI? CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto http://www.bowker.com/assets/literature/products/isni_datasheet.pdf

4. What is ISNI? International Standard Name Identifier (ISO 27729) ISNI identifies public identities used publically byparties“involved throughout the chain of creation, production, management, and distribution of intellectual and artistic contents.” Natsuo Kirino http://www.neripozza.it/autori.php?lett=K&id_aut=6 Parties CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

5. 이문열 1948-Lee, Mun-Yeol 1948-Lee, Mun-yol 1948-Li, Moon-Yeul 1948- Yi Munyol1948- Yi Munyǒl 1948- 李文烈 1948- Li, Wenlie 1948- http://akdong2k.tistory.com/242 ISNI: 0000000081755894 CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

6. Individual person (Party) 2nd Public Identity: Mei Lanfang (梅兰芳, 梅蘭芳) 1st Public Identity: Mei Lan (梅澜, 梅瀾) http://www.newsgd.com/culture/pic/200306240034.htm http://www.chinapage.com/xwang/ Has stage name Links between ISNIs related to the same Party Is stage name of ISNI 2 ISNI 1 CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

7. ISNI Organization • ISNI Registration Authority (RA) • operated by the ISNI International Agency (IA) • ISNI’s administration and governance • building and maintaining the ISNI database • ISNI Registration Agencies (RAG) • provide services to the users • serve as interfaces between the users and the RA • ProQuest/Bowker is the tester for this role • Assignment Agency (AA) • operates a centralized matching tool guaranteeing the uniqueness of ISNI numbers and assigns new ISNIs • OCLC (in Leiden) is the AA Administration Customer Service Technical support CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

8. ISNI Database ISNI database will be established in two stages • Initial phase (in progress) • Data contributed by founding members (at least 20 million unique names) • ISNI Assignment Agency verifies identities using VIAF developed matching tool • Two national libraries (British and French) provide quality assurance tests • Ongoing assignment (coming soon) • Registration Agencies process ISNI requests in batch or single mode • ISNI Assignment Agency processes requests using matching tool and assigns new ISNIs CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

9. ISNI Registration Authority Janifer G. and Joep K., ISNI from Development to Operations, Dec. 2011. http://www.isni.org/docs/isni_operations.pdf CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

10. Metadata Set ISNI: 0000000122841810 Name: 张艺谋 Date of Birth: 1951 Title : Hong gao liang Creation Class: Language material, Musical sound recording, Projected medium Creation Role: director CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

11. Who Uses ISNI? • Libraries • subfield $0 in bibliographic records • 110 2# $a Council on East Asian Libraries.$0 (isni) 0000 00012104844X • 024 field in authority records • 024 7# $a 000000012104844X $2 isni • Publishers, rights management organizations, search engines, etc. • ISNI will be universally embedded in product and work metadata • Other initiatives (NISO’s I2, ORCID, etc.) CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

12. Role ISNI Plays in Information Discovery ISNI Zhang, Yimou 0000000122841810 http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/ 0,28804,1861543_1865103_1865107,00.html チャン・イーモウ 張芸謀 张艺谋 張藝謀 장예모張藝謨 CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

13. Implications for East Asian Libraries (1) Play an active role in advocating the contribution to and the adoption of the ISNI system among the following organizations in China, Japan, and Korea: • National libraries • Publishers • Information service providers CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

14. Implications for East Asian Libraries (2) Partner with LC, NLC, and PCC to find a solution to differentiate the non-unique CJK personal name headings. Reason: Undifferentiated personal name authority records are rejected by VIAF since they do not refer to a unique entity. As a result, they are not included in the ISNI database. CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

15. Implications for East Asian Libraries (3) • Promote the use of ISNI at your institution • Reason: ISNI is an enabler for linked metadata applications • Educatelibrary users • Reason: ISNI will be universally embedded in multiple databases and domains beyond the library community CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

16. In Conclusion • Will ISNI affect the nature of authority work? • Differentiating parties and creating identifiers vs. heading formulation • CJK scripts vs. romanized characters • How about the concept of “preferred name heading”? Will it still be necessary given that ISNI can link multiple identities of the same Party? • Yip Wai-Lim vs. Ye Weilian CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto

17. Resources • http://www.isni.org/(ISNI website) • http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=44292 (ISO website) • http://isni.oclc.nl/ (ISNI database website) • http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2010/2010-06.html (MARC Proposal on “Encoding the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority Formats”) CEAL Annual Meeting, Toronto