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List 44: Name identifier type

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Value Description Notes Issue number Modified in Issue
01 Proprietary Note that <IDTypeName> is required with proprietary identifiers 10
02 Proprietary DEPRECATED – use 01 0 10
03 DNB publisher identifier Deutsche Nationalbibliothek publisher identifier 1
04 Börsenverein Verkehrsnummer 1
05 German ISBN Agency publisher identifier 1
06 GLN GS1 global location number (formerly EAN location number) 1 9
07 SAN Book trade Standard Address Number – US, UK etc 1 6
08 MARC organization code MARC code list for organizations – see http://www.loc.gov/marc/organizations/orgshome.html 28
10 Centraal Boekhuis Relatie ID Trading party identifier used in the Netherlands 4
13 Fondscode Boekenbank Flemish publisher code 7
15 Y-tunnus Business Identity Code (Finland). See http://www.ytj.fi/ (in Finnish) 8
16 ISNI International Standard Name Identifier. A sixteen digit number. Usually presented with spaces or hyphens dividing the number into four groups of four digits, but in ONIX the spaces or hyphens should be omitted. See http://www.isni.org/ 10
17 PND Personennamendatei – person name authority file used by Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and in other German-speaking countries. See http://www.dnb.de/standardisierung/normdateien/pnd.htm (German) or http://www.dnb.de/eng/standardisierung/normdateien/pnd.htm (English). DEPRECATED in favor of the GND 10 18
18 LCCN A control number assigned to a Library of Congress Name Authority record 10
19 Japanese Publisher identifier Publisher identifier administered by Japanese ISBN Agency 12
20 GKD Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei – Corporate Body Authority File in the German-speaking countries. See http://www.dnb.de/standardisierung/normdateien/gkd.htm (German) or http://www.dnb.de/eng/standardisierung/normdateien/gkd.htm (English). DEPRECATED in favor of the GND 13 18
21 ORCID Open Researcher and Contributor ID. A sixteen digit number. Usually presented with hyphens dividing the number into four groups of four digits, but in ONIX the hyphens should be omitted. See http://www.orcid.org/ 13
22 GAPP Publisher Identifier Publisher identifier maintained by the Chinese ISBN Agency (GAPP) 15
23 VAT Identity Number Identifier for a business organization for VAT purposes, eg within the EU’s VIES system. See http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/faqvies.do for EU VAT ID formats, which vary from country to country. Generally these consist of a two-letter country code followed by the 8–12 digits of the national VAT ID. Some countries include one or two letters within their VAT ID. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAT_identification_number for non-EU countries that maintain similar identifiers. Spaces, dashes etc should be omitted 16
24 JP Distribution Identifier 4-digit business organization identifier controlled by the Japanese Publication Wholesalers Association 17
25 GND Gemeinsame Normdatei – Joint Authority File in the German-speaking countries. See http://www.dnb.de/EN/gnd (English). Combines the PND, SWD and GKD into a single authority file, and should be used in preference 18
26 DUNS Dunn and Bradstreet Universal Numbering System, see http://www.dnb.co.uk/dandb-duns-number 22
27 Ringgold ID Ringgold organizational identifier, see http://www.ringgold.com/identify.html 22
28 Identifiant Editeur Electre French Electre publisher identifier 24
29 EIDR Party DOI DOI used in EIDR party registry, for example ‘10.5237/C9F6-F41F’ (Sam Raimi). See http://eidr.org 29
30 Identifiant Marque Electre French Electre imprint Identifier 24
31 VIAF ID Virtual Internet Authority File. <IDValue> should be a number. The URI form of the identifier can be created by prefixing the number with ‘https://viaf.org/viaf/’. See https://viaf.org 29
32 FundRef DOI DOI used in CrossRef’s Open Funder Registry list of academic research funding bodies, for example ‘10.13039/100004440’ (Wellcome Trust). See http://www.crossref.org/fundingdata/registry.html 27
33 BNE CN Control number assigned to a Name Authority record by the Biblioteca Nacional de España 35
34 BNF Control Number Numéro de la notice de personne BNF 36
35 ARK Archival Resource Key, as a URL (including the address of the ARK resolver provided by eg a national library) 36
36 Nasjonalt autoritetsregister Nasjonalt autoritetsregister for navn – Norwegian national authority file for personal and corporate names. For use in ONIX 3.0 only 37
37 GRID Global Research Identifier Database ID (see https://www.grid.ac). For use in ONIX 3.0 only 39
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