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This should not be treated like a type of corporate body qualifier in cataloging nor as an indication of a subordinate body. Most of these come from the Bowker publishers database (Source: BOWP) which seems to have included this information routinely. The term can be taken as an indication of a role. A new record should not be created for the same organization, and if separate records are found for the same name with and without the qualifier, it is highly likely they should be merged. The date information can be taken with a large grain of salt.
Scope
The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a standard that uniquely identifies public identities involved throughout the chain of creation, production, management and distribution of intellectual or artistic contents. It identifies the public identities of parties such as authors, composers, cartographers, performers, academic and scientific authors, researchers, or publishers. (ISNI FAQ)
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Organizations (corporate bodies) are in scope for ISNI, but meeting names (conferences) are not. Even though ISNI records may be found for some meeting names, new records for meetings should not be created pending discussions between ISNI and OCLC. (Participant questions, Q30)
Web portal
Do not use the web portal at www,isni.org/search. It looks similar to the web version that we use for editing in ISNI, but this has access only to the public database and shows only records with assigned ISNI numbers. We can't edit records from this portal, and when we try to log in, our credentials are refused.
Instead use the web access described at ISNI web links (restricted access)
