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Services
Athens Institution Identifier
http://iesr.ac.uk/guidelines/content/agent/athens-institution-identifier/
Institution identification systems used by the Athens Access Management System.
ARIW
http://arrowsmith.psych.uic.edu/arrowsmith_uic/index.html
Academic and Research Institutions in the World. Data are freely available and re-usable, and are partly sourced from CSIC's webometrics.info data. Data used by the AuthorClaim service. A simple web user interface makes sure that the service can be reproduced on other sites.
Dunn & Bradstreet's Market Identifiers
http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0516.html
Contains information and identifies over 21 million US business establishments.
GLN (Global Location Number)
barcodes.gs1us.org/dnn_bcec/Documents/tabid/136/DMXModule/731/Command/Core_Download/Default.aspx?EntryId=56
The GLN uniquely identifies an organisation across the entire supply chain.
HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency) institution identifier
http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_collns&task=show_manuals&Itemid=233&r=05011&f=2
Institutional identifier system used by the UK's HESA for attributing properties to UK higher educational establishments.
OpenIdentify (Ringgold)
http://www.ringgold.com/identify/cfm/si_pd.cfm?pid=24
Ringgold's Open Identify database includes nearly 100,000 institutions that subscribe to academic journals. Each institution is given a Ringgold Identifier, a unique number used by publishers and other vendors to unambiguously identify their customers.
SAN (Standard Address Number)
www.bowker.com/index.php/identifier-services/publisher-address-identifiers-san
Managed by Bowker. Page unavailable when this material was in preparation. Google's has a cached version. 7-digit institutional identifier used by the publishing industry.
Projects and ongoing developments
CEIHE (Classifying European Institutes for Higher Education)
http://www.utwente.nl/cheps/research/projects/ceihe/
Project extended to a second phase. Final report 'Mapping Diversity' is available.
JSCIEP (Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Pilot)
http://www.journalsupplychain.org/
Collaborative project that began in 2006: partners British Library, SWETS, Ringgold, Highwire Press. The proejct aimed to discover whether the creation of a standard, commonly used identifier for institutions would be beneficial to all parties involved in the journal supply chain. Intention was to integrate inter-operability around a standard identifier codified with standard descriptive metadata.
NISO
http://www.niso.org/news/pr/view?item_key=051cf455978ba32beeeaf14fe819df48c56964ba
NISO has set up a working group to explore issues around institution identification. Charged with proposing and identifier that will identify institutions and describe relationships between entities within institutions. Builds on the work of the JSCIEP.
OCLC/Sage/Ringgold work
www.oclc.org/news/events/presentations/2008/20080606_NASIG_Registry.ppt
Study underway to investigate whether OCLC's Worldcat library identifiers can be mapped to Ringgold's OpenIdentify identifiers.
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