ISNI is the International Standard Name Identifier, ISO standard 27729. The ISNI International Agency Ltd (ISNI-IA), a limited company registered in the UK, is the Registration Authority for the ISNI standard, charged by ISO with governing, promulgating and maintaining the use of ISNI worldwide.
ISNI-IA has a governing Board of Directors, including representatives of some of the original group of Founding Members responsible for launching the standard as well as co-opted or elected members. Current Board Members are as follows:
Michael Healy (CCC/IFRRO, Chair)
Adele Lavery (British Library)
Laura Cox (Ringgold Inc., Treasurer)
Eric van Lubeek (OCLC)
Sylvain Piat (CISAC)
Vincent Boulet (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Day-to-day management and direction of ISNI-IA is in the hands of Executive Director Tim Devenport (EDItEUR).
ISNI is an organization funded and led by its member organizations. Currently these comprise five Founding Members that are still actively involved, 30 regular Members and more than 35 Registration Agencies. Based in 24 countries across the world, these members represent a wide and diverse spectrum of interests ranging from libraries through music to rights/collections agencies.
Consultation Groups act as representatives of ISNI’s varied constituencies and as vehicles for communication and prioritization between ISNI-IA and its member organizations and end-users. Four such Groups have so far been convened and others are planned:
Libraries ISNI Consultation Group (chaired by Vincent Boulet)
Music ISNI Consultation Group (chaired by Paul Jessop, County Analytics)
Book Publishing Consultation Group (chaired by Eric Green, Bibliographic Data Services)
Research Sector Consultation Group (chaired by Simon Kerridge, Kerridge Research Consulting)
There is also a specialist technical committee:
Technical Advisory Committee for ISNI (chaired by Emma Rogoz, British Library)
More information, including ISNI’s Articles of Association, is available on request from ISNI-IA.
