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The Institutional Identifier (I2) Working Group was established at the request of the information
supplier community, which lacked a robust, global identifier strategy for the organizations with which
they did business.
The Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Pilot (JSCEIP), conducted from 2006 through
2007, demonstrated the improved efficiencies of unambiguous identification of organizational entities
in journal supply workflows. The project also found that implementation of an institutional identifier
would require a commitment by all parties in the supply chain to use such an identifier-and that
there were many more players involved than originally thought. Additional issues were raised related
to the metadata that should be collected for the identifier and how the data would be maintained.
Since NISO has traditionally played a role in the promulgation of identifiers commonly used within
the library and publishing communities, both nationally and internationally, members of the JSCEIP
brought a proposal to NISO to develop an institutional identifier standard that could support a wide
range of known and unknown digital information needs throughout the library and publishing
environment. The proposal was approved by NISO's Business Information Committee and the Voting
Members in January 2008 and a NISO Institutional Identifiers (I2) Working Group was formed with
the following charges:
1. Develop scenarios to represent the most compelling use cases for institutional identifiers that
will engage all relevant stakeholders and identify their institutional identifier needs.
2. Develop a globally unique identifier string that is usable in the web environment, together
with sufficient metadata to uniquely identify and relate the institution to its identifier.
3. Identify a strategy for the implementation of the institutional identifier, including identifying
the hosting and technical needs, the legacy uses of institutional identifiers in the digital
information space, and the identification of complementary initiatives that could be informed
by, or interoperable with, the NISO I2 identifier standard.
Additional Info
| Author | National Information Standards Organization |
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| Published by | NISO |
| Document type | Standard |
| Theme | /subgroups/2074 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Keyword | NISO RP-17-2013 |
