International Standard Name Identifier

International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) "is a draft ISO Standard (ISO 27729) whose scope is the identification of Public Identities of parties: that is, the identities used publicly by parties involved throughout the media content industries in the creation, production, management, and content distribution chains." [1] (Yes, even before publishing they write ISO 27729, not DIS 27729)

It is the result of the former project International Standard Party Identifier, having changed name and scope of itself. Furthermore in a 2008 ISMN manual "International Standard Name Identifier" is related to object, not party nor name identification.

As the result of that, the project will not lead to a replacement for the current IPI because an IPI identifies a party not one of the names of that party.

"An ISNI is made up of 16 decimal digits, the last one being a check character." (Yes they write character, see http://www.isni.org/)

Example: ISNI 1422 4586 3573 0476

FAQ: "An ISNI is made up of 16 digits, the last character being a check character. The check character may be either a decimal digit or the character “X”."

2008 ISNI definition by ISMN

ISNI is on the top of the ISO system to identify texts, recordings and audiovisual works. [2] p.36

w:ISNI

• ISNI International Standard Name Identifier
  • ISWC International Standard Musical Work Code (e.g. T-037.008.639-7)
    • ISRC International Standard Recording Code* (e.g. AR-F04-02-00386)
    • ISMN International Standard Music Number (GTIN-13 starting with 9790)*
  • ISTC International Standard Text Code
    • ISBN International Standard Book Number (GTIN-13 starting with 978 or 979)*
    • ISSN International Standard Serial Number (GTIN-13 starting with 977)*
  • ISAN International Standard Audiovisual Number* (ISAN 0000-0001-8947-0000-8-0000-0000-D)

These identifiers marked with * relate to URN, NBN and DOI.