OCLC Report | Metadata: Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI

Metadata: Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI (New Report From OCLC Research)

Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI is a new report from OCLC Research. It was made available online today.

Highlights of the Report :

• Organizational identifiers provide the means for a variety of stakeholders to find and identify an organization accurately and define relationships among its sub-units and with other organizations.

• The modelling of organizations provided can be adapted by others for their own uses, including linked data implementations.

• Identifying and tracking organizations presents multiple challenges.

• The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) has the means to disambiguate organizations and to meet the needs identified by 12 use-case scenarios.

• The ISNI database already includes over 500,000 institutional identifiers derived from the registries of agencies with business needs for identifying institutions.

• An outreach document targeted to academic administrators presents the reasons why organizational identifiers are important and the benefits of ISNI membership.

• Organizations need to take responsibility for maintaining current and accurate information associated with their identifiers.

Full Text Report | http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/2016/oclcresearch-organizational-identifiers-and-isni-2016.pdf

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Pralhad Jadhav

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