Scope: Tips, helpful hints, etc., for using and editing the ISNI database
Created by: John Hostage (Harvard)
(Publisher) as a qualifier
Many records for organizations in ISNI show "(Publisher)" after the name.
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)
The database includes persons as well as fictional and legendary characters. The same Party may have multiple public identities, as is the case of pseudonyms that an author may have chosen to use for signing his or her creations. Each public identity relating to a given party shall have separate ISNI. (ISNI FAQ) Records for multiple public identities of the same person are linked, but the links may be suppressed on request.
Organizations (corporate bodies) are in scope for ISNI, but meeting names (conferences) are not.
