Author: Juha Hakala

Director, IT development, The National Library of Finland

juha.hakala@helsinki.fi

Member of the ISNI working group

Abstract:
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) [1] is developing the International Standard Name Identifier (ISO 27729) as a standard identifier for public identities of parties. At the time of writing (December 2009) the document has reached Draft International Standard status. Much information is available at http://www.isni.org/ [2], including a useful FAQ [3]. This article describes the standard and potential implementation challenges. (more…)