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The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI): The Evolving Future of Name Authority Control

Article de revue

2013

Andrew MacEwan, Anila Angjeli, Janifer Gatenby

10.1080/01639374.2012.730601

0163-9374

1-3

55-71

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

51

This article describes the project to build the initial International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) database by deploying the techniques used to develop the Virtual International Authority File (VIA

This article describes the project to build the initial International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) database by deploying the techniques used to develop the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF). It focuses particularly on the work of the OCLC team in transforming the VIAF “resource file” model of matched data into a robust, operational, and authoritative file of uniquely assigned ISNIs as a base for an ongoing ISNI assignment system, and on the quality assurance validation of the database provided by the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The need for future interaction between ongoing ISNI assignment and name authority control in libraries is also explored.

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