- From: Laura Dawson <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 21:17:16 +0000
- To: Web Schemas TF <public-vocabs@w3.org>
Hi, all - Iım writing to propose including ISNI as a property for Person, and for Organization. ISNI is an ISO standard that is nearly 2 years old, and weıre starting to see uptake in VIAF, Wikipedia, Digital Science, ORCID (they use it to identify organization names), Musicbrainz, and other data sets. Currently, there are 6.8 million ISNIs assigned to names (6.4 million people, 400K organizations), but these numbers are growing with new data sets. I think with these sorts of numbers, itıs a valuable disambiguation/collocation tool for public identities. We may want to also include other identifiers like ORCID, which is heavily used in the scholarly/research community, particularly STEM. ORCID is a subset of ISNI, with different assignment criteria. More information is here: http://www.isni.org. Iım happy to send around documentation, slide decks, or answer any questions as well. Sincerely, Laura Dawson Product Manager, Identifier Services http://www.isni.org http://www.selfpublishedauthor.com ISNI 0000 0004 1029 5439 Bowker | 630 Central Avenue | New Providence, NJ 07974 USA | ProQuest... Start here <http://www.proquest.com/en-US/default.shtml>. 2012 InformationWeek 500 Top Innovator Bowker, a ProQuest affiliate
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