Registration Agencies

Becoming a Registration Agency

If you are considering starting a Registration Agency please email: agency@isni.org
Providing the following details:

  • Description of your organization
  • Territory or region where you plan to deploy your services
  • Your target market (film, music, ebooks, etc.)

Services of the Registration Agencies

Registration Agencies provide ISNI related services to all Users. They are appointed by the International Agency.
The core ISNI services comprise:

  • Looking up ISNI references from the central database maintained by the ISNI International Agency
  • Allocating ISNI to Public Identities

List of Registration Agencies

Bowker - primarily (though not exclusively) registers names of individuals and publishing organizations

Ringgold - primarily (though not exclusively) registers organization names

 

Get Your Unique ISNI

Stand out by applying for the ISNI for your name. The ISNI will uniquely identify your Public Identity as distinct from others who share your name. If your name appears in numerous different ways in your body of work (such as "Michele Smith" or "Michele B. Smith"), the ISNI also provides a way to tie all of these listings together into a single Public Identity.

Registration Agency

A registration agent provides the interface between ISNI applicants and the ISNI Registration Authority, which is governed by the ISNI board and administered by OCLC.

Search the ISNI Database

Use the lookup tool provided by OCLC to search the ISNI database, to discover which Public Identities have already been assigned ISNIs.