Identifier
ISNI
ISO identifier for people and organisations involved in creative work, used by libraries, publishers, databases and rights management bodies.
How it connects
What it is
- ISNI is a kind of Persistent identifier.
Builds on
- ORCID iD depends on ISNI.
Links
Details
Also known as: International Standard Name Identifier
Description
ISNI covers people and organisations, including public personas such as pseudonyms, stage names, record labels or publishing imprints.
Attributes
| url | https://isni.org |
|---|---|
| identifiers | wikidata: Q423048 |
| status | active |
| governance | Nonprofit |
| note | Issued via the ISNI International Agency, a consortium not yet modelled as a separate entity in this dataset. |
| type | Identifier |
| identifies | person |
| Tags | function: identification, region: global |
Sources
- https://isni.org/page/about-the-isni-organisation/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-12): ISO standard in use by libraries, publishers, databases and rights management organisations; covers public personas such as pseudonyms, stage names, labels and imprints.
Last reviewed: 2026-11-12
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