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Re-using VIAF Data : ISNI International Standard Name Identifier

This workshop explores the use of ISNI International Standard Name Identifier data in VIAF to improve data quality and establish links between various domains. It highlights the complementarity of ISNI and VIAF, the benefits of becoming an ISNI member, and the importance of cross-domain quality links.

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Re-using VIAF Data : ISNI International Standard Name Identifier

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  1. Re-using VIAF Data : ISNI International Standard Name Identifier Janifer Gatenby, EMEA Program Manager Metadata, OCLC Pauline Chougnet, BnF, ISNI Quality Team VIAF Workshop, OCLC EMEA, Strasbourg, 25/02/2013

  2. Music Rights Text Rights Trade Sources Encyclopaedias Libraries Researchers & Professional

  3. Quality Team VIAF-ISNI relationship Error notifications ISNIs Reprocessingafter notification matching Assignment Errordetection Quality control Monthly updates

  4. ISNI Brings to VIAF • ISNIs • Quality improvement • merges, corrections, splits • QT, sampling, algorithms • End user input • Links & Diffusion • Information • Common names • Unique names

  5. Assigned 6.64 million Provisional: Possible 948,990 Provisional: Unassigned 9,291,244

  6. Assigned

  7. ISNI & VIAF: complementarity • Goals • VIAF • clusters and makes authority data visible • ISNI • Standard, unique, persistent identifier • Bridges domains • Key role in services around scientific and cultural contents • Data in ISNI • No uniform titles, no meetings, geographic etc. • No sparse records • No undifferentiated records

  8. Music Rights Text Rights Trade Sources Encyclopaedias Libraries Researchers & Professional

  9. 7 million NEW LINKS to & from VIAF ì Linked Data: isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/

  10. Research Research links; Organisation derived Professional Association links; Creator & organisation derived Research links; Resource derived New Existing Wiki links Crowd sourced Inter-library links; Primarily resource derived Search engine Harvests

  11. Music MusicBrainz links Crowd sourced Rights links Creator & publisher derived Record Labels & Music Trade Resource & creator derived BL Sound Archive links Resource derived New Existing Wiki links Crowd sourced Inter-library links; Primarily resource derived Search Engine Harvests

  12. Why become an ISNI member? • Cross domain quality links – linking authors of theses, articles, books +++ • Importance in digitisation projects • Full coverage of ISNI for national identities • Bridge identifier – e.g. VIAF to ORCID via ISNI • Participation in Quality • Access to full database • Statistics & quality reports

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