From: Giselle Rawlins <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 10:21:33 +0000

For Immediate Release:

Ringgold and PSI join forces to harness the power of linked data

4th November 2016; Beaverton, Oregon and Oxford, UK. Ringgold and PSI have
today signed an agreement that will enable both companies to provide
services based on the power of combining Ringgold's Identify Database and
PSI's IP Registry.

The process is underway to map Identify and the IP Registry. When our work
is complete, these databases will be completely interoperable. This will
allow Ringgold customers to license IP data for institutional records within
Identify. Likewise, PSI customers will be able to licence Ringgold IDs,
hierarchies and metadata.

The curated IP data in the IP Registry will be linked to Ringgold's
Institutional Identifiers, organizational hierarchies and rich metadata.
Customers of both companies will be able to utilise the data from a single
source, reducing time and effort to assess and analyse sales, licensing,
usage, and authentication for their customers.

Andrew Pitts, PSI CEO, said; "This is great news for the scholarly
communication community; it makes perfect sense for the premier providers of
organizational hierarchy and validated IP range standards to combine data
and sales efforts to offer their shared customers the added value of a
joined-up service wherein Ringgold and IP Registry organizational IDs are
mapped".

Laura Cox, President of Ringgold, said; "We're excited to be part of the
solution to a substantial and widespread challenge in our industry. By
mapping Ringgold IDs to the IP Registry data, publishers can better
determine licensing arrangements and usage in conjunction with their
authentication systems to provide accurate access to entitled users. This
data will provide the basis for an entirely new class of industry
solutions".

About Ringgold
Ringgold (www.ringgold.com) has created a process for the identification of
institutions and the relationships between organizations. After more than 11
years, Ringgold has built Identify, a curated authority file of more than
400,000 institutions spanning multiple industry sectors. Each institutional
entry has been assigned its own unique Ringgold ID, which is mapped to the
organizational hierarchy and a range of classification metadata, including
consortium membership and the ISNI.

About PSI

Publisher Solutions International, Ltd. (PSI)
(www.publishersolutionsint.com) is an independent third-party, which enables
publishers and membership societies to work together securely and
confidentially towards the common goal of clean and accurate usage metrics
across all content and platforms including Open Access titles and
repositories.

About The IP Registry

The IP Registry (theipregistry.org) is a single repository of the validated
IP addresses for over 60,000 content licensing organisations worldwide,
accessible by both publishers and libraries and maintained for the benefit
of the whole scholarly communication community by PSI, based in Oxford, UK
and Boston, USA.

Contact:

PSI
Andrew Pitts
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http://www.theipregistry.org
Twitter: @ip_registry

Ringgold
Laura Cox
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http://www.ringgold.com
Twitter: @ringgoldinc