Open ISNI for Organizations is a CCC service that provides ISNIs (International Standard Name Identifier) for organizations worldwide.
ISNI is an ISO standard (ISO 27729) that identifies public identities of individuals and organizations. The ISNI is designed to act as a bridge identifier enabling the connection of different data sets, such as Ringgold Organizations, in support of broader interoperability. In this way, ISNI provides a ‘bridge’ between any public or proprietary dataset where the ISNI has been incorporated. For more information on ISNI: www.isni.org.
This service provides:
An API to obtain and resolve existing ISNIs for organizations > Click here
An online lookup service to search for organizations and obtain ISNIs > Click here
An online lookup service to search by ISNI > Click here
The services are free to use and do not require registration. The ISNI data that CCC is providing is open, Learn more (Links to: https://isni.org/resources/pdfs/isni-information-licence.pdf.
Ringgold is a Registration Agency for ISNI
Ringgold became the first ISNI Registration Agency for organizations in May 2012. CCC releases ISNIs to all Ringgold Organizations customers and to the general public. Ringgold Organizations contains Ringgold IDs for organizations with 99.9% having a corresponding ISNI ID. The proprietary data held in Ringgold Organizations, such as the Ringgold ID, metadata, demographics and organizational relationships are not shared in this dataset. ISNI is an open identifier and may be shared in accordance with the ISNI Information License.
The data contained herein is supplied to CCC as an ISNI Registration Agency by the ISNI Assignment Agency on behalf of the ISNI International Agency. The ISNI number is an ISO standard, ISO 27729 (ISNI) governed and managed by the ISNI International Agency. CCC holds no rights to this data other than those provided to us in our capacity as a Registration Agency to supply ISNI data to third parties.
To register a new ISNI for your organization, please contact us at ringgoldsupport@copyright.com
Copyright Clearance Center and ISNI cannot be held responsible in any way for damages arising from the use or misuse of this data or service. Use this data, website, and web services at your own risk.