International Standard Name Identifier
authority file with 16-digit identifier for people and organisations
AI overview
An International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a 16-digit code assigned to people and organizations, similar to how books have ISBN numbers. It helps libraries, publishers, and other institutions reliably identify and track the same person or organization across different records and databases.
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The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an identifier system for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, television programs, and newspaper articles. Such an identifier consists of 16 digits. It can optionally be displayed as divided into four blocks.
ISNI can be used to disambiguate named entities that might otherwise be confused, and links the data about names that are collected and used in all sectors of the media industries.