Addressing the Challenges with Organizational Identifiers and ISNI

« Organizational affiliations of the creators of works are important to a variety of stakeholders, including academic administrators, funders, publishers, repository managers, software developers, rights agencies, and individual researchers. Identifying and tracking these affiliations can be challenging, as organizations may be known by a variety of names and may have schools or research centers well-known on their own. An organizational identifier— a unique, persistent and public URI associated with the organization that is resolvable globally over networks via specific protocols—provides the means to both find and identify an organization accurately and to define the relationships among its sub-units and with other organizations. This report presents new modeling of organizations that others can adapt for their own uses. (…) »

source > http://www.oclc.org, Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Janifer Gatenby, Grace Agnew et al., avril 2016

• Mots-clés : 
• Affiliation,
• Identifiant,
• International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)