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== Public Identities ==
 
== Public Identities ==
The '''International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)''' is 16-digit identifier of publicly known natural persons, legal entities (mostly editorial) and even fictional characters. Mostly used by contributors to creative works and those active in their distribution, including researchers, inventors, writers, artists, visual creators, performers, producers, publishers, aggregators etc.
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The '''International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)''' is 16-digit identifier of publicly known natural persons, legal entities (mostly editorial) and even fictional characters. Mostly used by contributors to creative works and those active in their distribution, including researchers, inventors, writers, artists, visual creators, performers, producers, publishers, aggregators etc. Created in 2012 by librarians and therefore contains mostly names related to books.
  
 
* [http://www.isni.org/ ISNI Database] by [http://www.isni.org/about ISNI International Agency] - over '''10 million''' identities, including '''9.4 million individuals''' (since the time of [http://isni.org/isni/0000000444561870 Diogenes of Sinope]) and '''789,630 organisations''' as of 22.11.2018. Try to find yourself there. If you fail - write a book, send it to Library of Congress and wait... Or you can register your identity for some $30 in any [http://www.isni.org/content/isni-registration-agencies local registration agency].
 
* [http://www.isni.org/ ISNI Database] by [http://www.isni.org/about ISNI International Agency] - over '''10 million''' identities, including '''9.4 million individuals''' (since the time of [http://isni.org/isni/0000000444561870 Diogenes of Sinope]) and '''789,630 organisations''' as of 22.11.2018. Try to find yourself there. If you fail - write a book, send it to Library of Congress and wait... Or you can register your identity for some $30 in any [http://www.isni.org/content/isni-registration-agencies local registration agency].

Revision as of 05:35, 23 November 2018

This section should contain some information about existing international and national registers of

TWG also intends to create registers of

Legal Entities

Worldwide Legal Entities Register is being built under G20 Cannes Summit decision (2011) by Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Now (November 2018) the LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) database includes about 1.3 million entities. Registration is voluntary, but in some countries LEI number is required for securities trade.


There still exist some private initiatives, e.g. Dun & Bradstreet’s Data Universal Numbering System (D-U-N-S Number). It started in 1963 and now includes more than 300 million businesses worldwide.


Banks

Books and publishers

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is 13-digit (formerly 9-digit in 1966-70; 10-digit in 1970-2006) number for books published since the standard was introduced. Includes EAN-prefix (3 digits: 978 or 979); country or language area code (1 to 5 digits); publisher code (1 to 6 digits); publication number (1 to 6 digits); check digit (one).

Serials (Periodicals)

The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is an 8-digit code used to identify unambiguously newspapers, journals, magazines and periodicals of all kinds and on all media–print and digital.

Public Identities

The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is 16-digit identifier of publicly known natural persons, legal entities (mostly editorial) and even fictional characters. Mostly used by contributors to creative works and those active in their distribution, including researchers, inventors, writers, artists, visual creators, performers, producers, publishers, aggregators etc. Created in 2012 by librarians and therefore contains mostly names related to books.