International Standard Name Identifier (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.

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Typedatatype
Wikidata propertyP213
Regular expression(\d{4})(\d{4})(\d{4})(\d{4})
Sources
Classification Classificationidentifier
Categories
  • science (Scientific)
  • objectids (Objects identifiers)
  • identifiers (Universal unique identifiers)
Languages
  • common (Common to most languages)
Examples
  • 0000 0001 2197 5163 (Norway)
  • 0000 0001 2141 6409 (Nero)