The International Standard Name Identifier, or ISNI, is a system that gives a unique sixteen-digit number to people and organisations that create or contribute to creative works, such as authors, musicians, performers and publishers. Its purpose is to solve the problem of identifying the same person under different names or of telling apart people with the same name. It is an international standard, ISO 27729, and is operated by an agency set up by several organisations including libraries, publishers and rights societies. An ISNI can be used to link the data in library catalogues, databases and web services, and it is related to identifiers such as VIAF and ORCID.
Before and after
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- 11 February 2012Death of Whitney Houston
- 26 February 2012Euphoria
- 4 March 20122012 Russian presidential election
- 15 March 2012Launch of International Standard Name Identifier
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- 22 April 20122012 French presidential election
- 6 May 2012Construction of London Stadium
- 22 May 2012Construction of Tokyo Skytree
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