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OCLC Research Report on Organizational
Identifiers
I wanted to share the announcement of the recently-published OCLC
Research Report on Organizational Identifiers. This is a very
important -- and very hard -- problem that has been getting renewed
attention recently in a variety of contexts. For those looking for
additional information, I'd note the sessions at the last few CNI
meetings, and also the recent workshop held at the Force 11 meeting in
Portland in April 2016 as additional resources. CNI will continue to
cover developments in this area.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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Identifying and tracking organizational affiliations of the
creators of works 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.
Highlights:
- Organizational identifiers provide the means for a variety of
stakeholders to find and identify an organization accurately and
define relationships among its sub-units and with other organizations.
- The modeling of organizations provided can be adapted by others
for their own uses, including linked data implementations.
- Identifying and tracking organizations presents multiple
challenges.
- The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) has the means to
disambiguate organizations and to meet the needs identified by 12
use-case scenarios.
- The ISNI database already includes over 500,000 institutional
identifiers derived from the registries of agencies with business
needs for identifying institutions.
- An outreach document targeted to academic administrators presents
the reasons why organizational identifiers are important and the
benefits of ISNI membership.
- Organizations need to take responsibility for maintaining current
and accurate information associated with their identifiers.
Please share with colleagues. We'd love to hear your
comments.
Patrick
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Patrick A. Confer
OCLC · Web Projects Manager, OCLC Research
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