We hope the following videos will help institutions get started with creating ISNIs, and answer questions for those that are already working with ISNIs. Please note the following:
- Most of the content in the following videos is based on Getting started with ISNI and the ISNI web interface. Please refer to the first two sections (What is ISNI? and What is an ISNI?) for helpful background that is not covered in the videos.
- For further information about the topics covered, please refer to Getting started with ISNI and the ISNI web interface and the documents annotated in magenta on the ISNI documentation page.
- Please post questions to the Participant questions (Google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HiSMXy0XdBWcM3INXnZkwcAMnRZnDp0snuVaxH5ILeg/edit)
- Many thanks to Mary Jane Cuneo and Karen Carlson Young for their invaluable expertise, and to Michael Beckett for his ace video technical skills.
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Getting started, part 1 - Introduction and Overview
0:00 Introduction
0:09 Three primary databases within ISNI:
0:14 Public database
1:13 Web version
2:09 Client version
2:42 Logging in to web version, including browser security warning
3:59 Web display tabs and options
5:29 Search types (Any Phrase & Name)
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Getting started, part 2 - Searching
0:00 Introduction - search types
1:19 Any Phrase (APH) search - Direct order
2:06 Any Phrase (APH) search - Inverted order
2:49 Name (NA) search - Inverted order
3:09 Name (NA) search - Direct order
4:01 Search results tabs and options
4:48 Filtering options
6:26 Record display options
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Getting started, part 3 - Creating a new ISNI record
0:00 Introduction
0:10 Search database to confirm no record exists
1:30 Opening WebCat template to create new record
2:26 Name field
3:38 Identifying repeatable fields in the template
4:20 Creation role field
(4:50 - film director appears multiple times in drop-down menu, as do other fields - why?)
5:19 Work field
5:54 Related person fields
6:50 Related organisation fields
7:23 External Information fields
8:07 General note field
8:35 Save changes or Cancel
8:49 Conditions for creating full ISNI record - duplicate-matching, completeness
9:50 Re-entering credentials
10:14 Full ISNI record successfully created!
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Enhancing ISNI records, part 1
0:00 Introduction
0:24 Why enhance an ISNI?
0:57 Changing an ISNI record status from provisional to assigned
1:43 Adding source and reiterating name
3:05 Adding website information to record
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Enhancing ISNI records, part 2
0:00 Adding information to an assigned record
1:02 Adding source and reiterating name as separate step before adding further information
2:36 Adding related organization
3:58 Adding link to related organization
4:50 Adding information to record created by your institution
(7:32 - MassArt - Birmingham alabama?)
8:06 Corporate name changes - adding new form as a variant name
9:46 Deciding whether to add an affiliation to a name
10:53 Literary warrant - differences between NACO and ISNI
11:31 Example 1 - author
12:01 Example 2 - painter
12:55 Example 3 - person who appears in reference sources
13:26 Example 4 - person with little published information
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Enhancing ISNI records, part 3
0:00 Resolving and reporting duplicate records
0:17 Duplicates already flagged by ISNI
3:18 Duplicates not yet flagged by ISNI
6:09 Possible duplicates - ISNI equivalent to NACO 667 "Cannot identify with..." note fields
6:43 Possible duplicates identified by ISNI algorithm when saving new record
7:33 Reporting mixed identities
12:53 Errors from other sources
