Hi Richard,

Thanks for posting, and thanks to Janifer Gatenby for supplying the answer.

So my assumption that if someone uses/has a pseudonym, it always refers to
a different public identity was wrong? Who decides what should become just
a new name for an existing identity, and what a different identity?

Groeten van Ben

On 18-06-14 14:11, "Richard Wallis" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>Seeing this thread I checked with the ISNI team and got the following
>answer from Janifer Gatenby who asked me to post it on her behalf:
>
>SNI identifies “public identities”.    The scope as stated in the standard
>is
>
>
>
>“This International Standard specifies the International Standard name
>identif*i*er (ISNI) for the identification of public identities of
>parties;
>that is, the identities used publicly by parties involved throughout the
>media content industries in the creation, production, management, and
>content distribution chains.”
>
>
>
>The relevant definitions are:
>
>
>
>*3.1*
>
>*party*
>
>natural person or legal person, whether or not incorporated, or a group of
>either
>
>*3.3*
>
>*public identity*
>
>Identity of a *party *(3.1) or a fictional character that is or was
>presented to the public
>
>*3.4*
>
>*name*
>
>character string by which a *public identity *(3.3) is or was commonly
>referenced
>
>
>
>A party may have multiple public identities and a public identity may have
>multiple names (e.g. pseudonyms)
>
>
>
>ISNI data is available as linked data.  There are currently 8 million
>ISNIs
>assigned and 16 million links.
>
>
>
>Example:
>
>
>
>[image: <image001.png>]
>
>~Richard.
>