- From: Laura Dawson <Laura.Dawson@bowker.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 21:53:51 +0000
- To: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
- CC: "lazarus@lazaruscorporation.co.uk" <lazarus@lazaruscorporation.co.uk>, "public-vocabs@w3.org TF" <public-vocabs@w3.org>
We¡¯re pretty happy, yes. :) Yes, if we could include it as an example in the documentation, that would be really helpful in encouraging further use. You¡¯re right about the difference with ISBNs - unfortunately they are associated with a particular vendor or platform. On 11/20/13, 4:49 PM, "Martin Hepp" <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote: >In any case, it would of course make sense to encourage the use of ISNI >identifiers in markup by means of a respective example in the schema.org >spec. > >More than 6 million unique identifiers for contributors to creative works >is an impressive achievement! > >Martin > >On Nov 20, 2013, at 10:46 PM, Martin Hepp wrote: > >> Hi Laura, >> if there is (or will shortly) be a canonical way of expressing an ISNI >>identifier as a URI, then I think Paul's proposal is best. >> The difference to ISBN is that for ISBN codes, there is no canonical >>URI schema defined (at least to my knowledge). >> >> Martin >> >> On Nov 20, 2013, at 10:41 PM, Laura Dawson wrote: >> >>> You¡¯re absolutely right about expressing ISNI in the form of a >>>persistent >>> URI. (Currently you can do so using the URL >>> http://isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, but we are moving that >>> functionality to http://www.isni.org/isni/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). However, I >>> was looking at ISNI use in the same way that ISBN is used in ¡°Book¡±. >>>That >>> potential exists as well, so that data sets can communicate with one >>> another. >>> >>> On 11/20/13, 4:36 PM, "Paul Watson" <lazarus@lazaruscorporation.co.uk> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Laura, >>>> >>>> We currently have the "sameAs" property in "Person" (and in >>>> "Organization") >>>> which is defined as: >>>> >>>> "URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's >>>> identity. >>>> E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Freebase page, or official >>>> website." >>>> >>>> I've had a quick look at the ISNI website and it looks like ISNI >>>> identifiers >>>> are in the form of a persistent URI, and I believe ORCID is the same, >>>>so >>>> perhaps the existing "sameAs" property can immediately be used for the >>>> ISNI/ORCID URI? >>>> >>>> Please correct me if I've misunderstood anything! >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> >>>> On 20/11/13 21:17, Laura Dawson wrote: >>>>> Hi, all - >>>>> >>>>> I©öm 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 >>>>> we©öre 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, it©ös 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. I©öm 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> martin hepp >> e-business & web science research group >> universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen >> >> e-mail: hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org >> phone: +49-(0)89-6004-4217 >> fax: +49-(0)89-6004-4620 >> www: http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group) >> http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal) >> skype: mfhepp >> twitter: mfhepp >> >> Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data! >> ================================================================= >> * Project Main Page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ >> >> >> >> > >-------------------------------------------------------- >martin hepp >e-business & web science research group >universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen > >e-mail: hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org >phone: +49-(0)89-6004-4217 >fax: +49-(0)89-6004-4620 >www: http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group) > http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal) >skype: mfhepp >twitter: mfhepp > >Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data! >================================================================= >* Project Main Page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/ > > > >
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