International Standard Name Identifier

ISNI is the ISO certified global standard number for identifying the millions of contributors to creative works and those active in their distribution, including researchers, inventors, writers, artists, visual creators, performers, producers, publishers, aggregators, and more. It is part of a family of international standard identifiers that includes identifiers of works, recordings, products and right holders in all repertoires, e.g. DOI, ISAN, ISBN, ISRC, ISSN, ISTC, and ISWC.

The mission of the ISNI International Authority (ISNI-IA) is to assign to the public name(s) of a researcher, inventor, writer, artist, performer, publisher, etc. a persistent unique identifying number in order to resolve the problem of name ambiguity in search and discovery; and diffuse each assigned ISNI across all repertoires in the global supply chain so that every published work can be unambiguously attributed to its creator wherever that work is described.

ISNI（国际标准名称标识符）系ISO认证的全球标准编号，旨在识别数百万参与创意作品创作及其传播的贡献者，包括研究人员、发明者、作家、艺术家、视觉创作者、表演者、制作人、出版商、聚合者等。它是国际标准标识符系列的一部分，该系列包括所有目录中的作品、录音、产品及权利持有者的标识符，例如DOI、ISAN、ISBN、ISRC、ISSN、ISTC和ISWC。ISNI国际权威机构（ISNI-IA）的使命是为研究人员、发明者、作家、艺术家、表演者、出版商等个人的公共姓名分配一个持久唯一的识别号码，以解决搜索和发现中的姓名歧义问题；并将分配的每个ISNI在全球供应链的所有目录中进行扩散，以确保每部公开的作品都能明确归因于其创作者，无论该作品在何地被描述。