From: Giselle Rawlins <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 07:55:42 -0400

Announcement:

Ringgold to Open ISNI for Organizations to the World

2 November 2016. Ringgold, an ISNI Registration Agency, has released a
free service to provide open access to the ISNI Identifiers and data
for organizations. This includes:

- An API to obtain and resolve existing ISNIs for organizations
- A complete dataset download of ISNIs, organization names, locations,
alternate names, and URLs
- A free online look-up service to search and obtain ISNI records

ISNI is an ISO international standard bridge identifier used to link
data among disparate datasets. Any dataset mapped to ISNIs, whether
open or proprietary, can be linked together to provide
interoperability between systems to benefit the entire scholarly
community. The ISNI number and associated data may be used openly and
without restriction.

Ringgold is in no way taking over responsibility of ISNI for
organizations; the management and governance of ISNI remains with the
ISNI International Agency, a non-profit organization. In our capacity
as an ISNI Registration Agency, we have created Open ISNI for
Organizations as a conduit to ease access, increase adoption, and
improve the utility of ISNI.

We hope this will facilitate the use of ISNI for Organizations
throughout our community as an open bridge identifier across a myriad
of use cases.

For access to this free service and for more information please see:
http://isni.ringgold.com

For further information about ISNI, please see: http://www.isni.org

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