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Creating an ISNI is quite a different experience from what we are familiar with as catalogers. Generally when creating a local or NACO authority we are basing the authority on a resource in hand, but that is not necessarily true when creating an ISNI. We might not have anything in hand and in many cases the names we are working with are primarily outside the library silo, in term terms of the material we work on.
Another difference is the milieu (peer sources)—ISNI contributors are not only other libraries but also property rights organizationorganizations, publishers, information aggregators, etc.) so we are placed in a much larger/global environment.
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External Information and Notes: You can add outside sources such as a website in the Information Box, with an indication of the source such as Wikipedia and the URL to the source providing a link to more detailed information about the Public Identity.
General note: messages for the ISNI quality team, such as information that should be deleted from a record, records that should be merged or separated: i.e. challenge the algorithm….
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