ISNI: An Identifier for all Researchers and Research Sector Organizations

This poster explains how the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) – an ISO standard – interacts with other research sector identifiers (including ORCIDs, Ringgold, ROR, CrossRef, etc.) in its capacity as a bridging identifier and a critical component in Linked Data and Semantic Web applications. The poster addresses the benefits of ISNIs for researchers, academic and scholarly publishers, institutions, repositories, and more – touching on ISNI’s centrally curated database, its direct data contributors, its data recipients, and the ISNI standard’s data quality processes which enrich the ISNI database and help to ensure that ISNI records continue to maintain cross-domain links with other prominent research sector standards. This is an especially timely topic for researchers and those working in the research sector owing to a recent announcement from the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), which has brought the use of identifiers in scholarly and research workflows to the fore. This poster shows not only the importance of using identifiers in the research sector, but the strength and quality of the data when standards work together.