ISNIs: Curated, Interoperable, Persistent Identifiers that support research integrity

This poster will explain how the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) – ISO standard 27729 – strengthens research integrity by interacting with other research sector identifiers (including Ringgold, ROR, CrossRef, ORCIDs , etc.) in its capacity as a bridging identifier and a critical component in Linked Data and Semantic Web applications. The poster will touch on the key benefits of ISNIs for researchers, academic and scholarly publishers, institutions, repositories, and more – including ISNI’s centrally curated database, information about its direct data contributors and data recipients, and the standard’s data quality processes which enrich the ISNI database and help to ensure that ISNI records continue to maintain cross-domain links with other prominent research sector standards. Taking into account the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), which has brought the use of identifiers in scholarly and research workflows to the fore over the past year, this poster will show not only the importance of using identifiers in the research sector, but the strength and quality of data that can be achieved when these standards are utilized together. The OSTP in particular states that PIDs used within the research sector must be operable with ISNI. This post will explain why, and we will be on hand during the SSP Annual Meeting to answer any questions the research community may have.