From: Giselle Rawlins <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:25:14 +0100

4 August 2015. Beaverton, OR. Ringgold is delighted to announce that
ove 400,000 ISNI numbers for organizations are now available in the
Identify Database, representing 99% coverage.

Ringgold became the first ISNI Registration Agency for institutions in
May 2012 and has participated in the standardization of institutional
identifiers since 2005. We have been working with ISNI over the last
three years to improve and standardize the assignment of ISNI numbers
for organizations, which have different characteristics than
individuals. Ringgold is now pleased to be able to release ISNIs to
all Identify customers and to the general public.

The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an ISO standard
(ISO 27729) that identifies public identities of individuals and
organizations. The ISNI number is not intended to provide direct
access to comprehensive information about a “Public Identity” -
instead, it is designed to act as a ‘bridge identifier’ to link
systems where comprehensive information is held, such as Ringgold’s
Identify Database.

The ISNI number is an open identifier in that it may be freely shared
with any other person or party without restriction. In this way, ISNI
provides a “bridge” between any public or proprietary dataset where
the ISNI number has been incorporated.

ISNI number syntax

An ISNI number consists of 16 numerical digits. Example: ISNI 1234
1234 1234 1234

How to obtain an ISNI number

For Ringgold customers:  ISNI numbers have been included in Ringgold’s
Identify Database at no additional charge to customers. As new records
are added to Identify, we will obtain new ISNI numbers from the ISNI
Assignment Agency automatically.

For organizations wishing to obtain the ISNI number for their own
institution:  Ringgold provides a free lookup service for ISNI numbers
at: ido.ringgold.com. To search for your Organization and its assigned
ISNI number, simply login (registration is free) and use the simple
search tool.  If your organization is not listed, we will supply a new
ISNI upon request for a small fee. For more information, please visit
www.ringgold.com/isni

For organizations wishing to obtain ISNI numbers for multiple
institutions: There are two options, you can become a Ringgold
customer and enjoy the benefits of all of the associated metadata
about institutions that are not available with an ISNI number alone,
or you can obtain the ISNI numbers only. For more information, please
visit:  www.ringgold.com/isni

About Ringgold

Ringgold supports a scholarly supply chain where information and data
about subscribers, authors, readers, and content is able to flow
easily and without confusion. With the Identify Database and
affiliated services, Ringgold provides unique and persistent
identifiers and authoritative quantitative and qualitative metadata on
institutions from every market sector involved in scholarly and
academic communications globally.  Ringgold’s ProtoView service
enhances the discovery of scholarly works by creating and
disseminating standard metadata via an extensive distribution network.
Our clients utilize Ringgold’s services to improve internal data
governance, increase discoverability of published works, and maximize
the potential of their data. For additional information, visit
www.ringgold.com.

About ISNI

ISNI is the ISO certified global standard number for identifying the
millions of contributors to creative works and those active in their
distribution, including researchers, inventors, writers, artists,
visual creators, performers, producers, publishers, aggregators, and
more.
The mission of the ISNI International Authority (ISNI-IA) is to assign
to the public name(s) of a researcher, inventor, writer, artist,
performer, publisher, etc. a persistent unique identifying number in
order to resolve the problem of name ambiguity in search and
discovery; and diffuse each assigned ISNI across all repertoires in
the global supply chain so that every published work can be
unambiguously attributed to its creator wherever that work is
described. For additional information, visit www.isni.org.