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You can modify (enhance) an ISNI record in the ISNI web portal by supplying additional information to the record: name variants, dates, language, gender, or nationality, related people or organizations, titles of works created by the person, class and role, and information from outside sources. Editing a record may involve various actions, from simply adding a note to linking to records for related names. By enhancing a record and adding more fields to a provisional record, its status may be upgraded and changed from "provisional" to "assigned."
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A name and your local Identifier (i.e., PCC) are mandatory fields. If PCC is not already a source an identifier on the record (as in the example above), it must be added before any further editing of the record. (An exception is when you add a General Note on the External Information and Notes tab to send information to the ISNI quality team about errors, records to merge or split, etc.)
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To add a variant name click the + beside "Add Name variant." Add your variant form of name in the boxes. (N.B. As explained on the Principles page, ISNI is a system of identifiers, not an authority file. It is not necessary to record a variant for each permutation of a name.)
Greyed Grayed out fields show data from other sources. You cannot edit or remove these fields. Contact the ISNI Quality Team if you spot an error you would like to see corrected by adding a General Note on the External Information and Notes tab.
Click "Save changes" to add your source or select another tab to add more data.
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- Click "Link Relation" to trigger the name search. One or more hits are presented in a popup window.
- Click "Link!" to select the related person or organisation. The PPN of the selected name is added to the ISNI record.
If you know the PPN of the Related name or Related organisation, you can:
- Enter the related name in the field Related person or Related organisation and select Relation–is related together with the Relationship type.
- Enter the PPN of the Related person or Related organisation in the field PPN. The example above shows the PPN of the La Trobe University, with which Gustave Amigó Jansen is affiliated.
- Note: To see the PPN for a particular record, click on "marc21" in the band above the record and copy the number from the 000 field. On records without an assigned ISNI, it is also the number that appears in the labels display as "Record no."
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Record a subtitle only if available in the source used. Do not input a colon before the subtitle. The system will automatically display a colon after the title proper automatically in the labeled display.
The title of a work to which a person contributed (such as a journal) or which he or she performed may be recorded in the field Contributed to or performed.
Adding Creation Class and Role
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Under the tab External Information and Notes, you can add outside sources, such as a website where important information was found.
Click the “+” sign next to "Add External Information." In the box marked under the word "External Information," enter an indication of the kind of source, such as "Wikipedia." In the URI box, give the URI for the source. For example, for an IMDb page, enter "IMDb" in the Information box and the URL for the person in the URL box. Remove the parts of the URL that begin with a question mark, e.g. change "http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0825821/?ref_=rvi_nm" to "http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0825821/"Click the “+” sign next to "Add External Information."
When you have made your additions, click "Save changes."
Clicking "Cancel" will send you back to the labels display of the record.
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