| COMARC/A | September | 2018 |
This field contains the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). It identifies the parties involved throughout the media content industries in the creation, production, management and content distribution chains.
ISNI is comprised of a 16-digit number without blank spaces. If the subfield z is present, the subfield a is mandatory.
ISNI that was formerly valid but which has been cancelled by the ISNI Assignment Agency.
The ISNI is assigned, in accordance with ISO 27729, by the ISNI Assignment Agency, in a centralized way. An ISNI is a "dumb" number, because none of its parts has any special meaning.
According to the provisions of ISO 27729:
a party may have more than one public identity, each identified by a separate ISNI;
the same ISNI shall be allocated to one and only one public identity of a party;
alternative spellings, alternative presentations, character set variances, script variances and linguistic variances do not by themselves justify the allocation of different ISNIs.
IISNI consists of 15 digits followed by a check character. The check character may be either a digit from 0 to 9 or the character X, which is calculated using the preceding 15 digits in accordance with the ISO/IEC 7064, MOD11-2 algorithm.
The 16 digits of the number are entered in a compact form, without blank spaces or punctuation, and not preceded by the letters ISNI.
When an ISNI is displayed for a user it is preceded by the letters ISNI, separated from the identifier by a space, and the 16 digits are displayed as four blocks of four digits, with each block separated from the next by a space.
The number is actionable, resolvable as follows: http:/www.isni.org/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
010 ⊔⊔ a0000000121035067 200 ⊔1 aLévi-Strauss bClaude f1908-2009 300 0⊔ aPhilosophe et anthropologue 300 0⊔ aMembre de l'Académie française (élu en 1974) 400 ⊔1 aStrauss bClaude Lévi- f1908-2009 400 ⊔1 aLévy-Strauss bClaude f1908-2009 400 ⊔1 aStrauss bClaude Lévy- f1908-2009 (The record contains only one identity. The forms of the name contained in the 400 fields represent alternative forms of the name, which do not justify the allocation of different ISNIs.) 010 ⊔⊔ a0000000120300340 200 ⊔1 aVargas bFred f1957-.... 300 0⊔ aArchéologue 300 0⊔ aAuteur de romans policiers 500 ⊔1 3120572294 aAudoin-Rouzeau bFrédérique f1957-.... 010 ⊔⊔ a000000036862981X 200 ⊔1 aAudoin-Rouzeau bFrédérique f1957-.... 300 0⊔ aArchéozoologue 300 0⊔ aMembre de l'ERA 38 du Centre de recherches archéologiques du CNRS de Sophia-Antipolis, Alpes de Haute-Provence et de l'URA 1415 (en 1991) 300 0⊔ aConnue également comme auteur de romans policiers sous le pseudonyme "Vargas, Fred (1957-....)" 400 ⊔1 aRouzeau bFrédérique Audoin- f1957-.... 400 ⊔1 aAudouin-Rouzeau bFrédérique f1957-.... 400 ⊔1 aRouzeau bFrédérique Audouin- f1957-.... 500 ⊔1 3120583593 aVargas bFred f1957-.... (Each of the two records above contains a separate identity for the same person. Each record contains one 010 field for the ISNI associated with the identity represented in the record. Both records are linked by the field 500.) 010 ⊔⊔ a0000000121068125 210 02 aLondon school of economics and political science 410 02 aLSE 410 02 aLondon school of economics 410 02 aUniversity of London bLondon school of economics and political science (Field 010 contains the ISNI assigned to the organization.)