Datatypes

International Standard Name Identifier

ID isni

The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an identifier system for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as books, television programmes, and newspaper articles. Such an identifier consists of 16 digits. It can optionally be displayed as divided into four blocks.

Categories

Scientific, Objects identifiers, Universal unique identifiers

Countries

Global (not tied to a country)

Languages

Common to most languages

Bioregistry

isni

python-stdnum

stdnum.isni

Wikidata

P213

Quality

90/100 · missing: negative example, translation

Metacrafter rules

5 rules (2 by field name, 3 by value)

• isnifield field, common/objects.yaml
• isnivalue data, common/objects.yaml
• isnivaluewithspaces data, common/science.yaml
• science_isnifield field, common/science.yaml
• science_isnivalue data, common/science.yaml

Supported by tools

metacrafter, python-stdnum

Regular expression

^\d{4} ?\d{4} ?\d{4} ?\d{3}[\dX]$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Sources

• wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Name_Identifier
• wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P213

Use this record

• Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/isni
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/any/science/isni.yaml on GitHub