The Summer 2011 issue of NISO’s Information Standards Quarterly magazine is
now available in open access in PDF from the NISO website. Guest Content
Editor, Helen Henderson, Managing Director at Information Power Ltd., has
assembled an excellent overview of the major standards and initiatives on
the special issue theme of Organization and People Identifiers. As she
states in her introductory letter: “Identifiers have always been essential
standards in libraries and publishing. Content identifiers, such as the
ISBN, are well established, but institutional and personal identifiers are
much newer, the need having emerged as more and more content is available
electronically.”

Both the entire issue and individual articles may be freely downloaded.
Visit: http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2011/v23no3/

Table of Contents

Letter from the Guest Content Editor by Helen Henderson

FEATURES

ISNI: A new system for name identification by Janifer Gatenby and Andrew
MacEwan

ORCID: Unique Identifiers for Authors and Contributors by Martin Fenner

IN PRACTICE

The Names Project: A New Approach to Name Authority by Alan Danskin, Amanda
Hill, and Daniel Needham

OPINIONS

Identify This! Identifiers and Trust by Geoff Bilder

SPOTLIGHT

The Use of the Standard Address Number (SAN) in the Supply Chain by Louise
Timko

NISO REPORTS

I² and ISNI: Improving the Information Supply Chain with Standard
Institutional Identifiers by Jody DeRidder

NOTEWORTHY

• NISO Recommended Practice on Test Modes for SUSHI Servers Issued for Trial
Use

• NISO Receives Mellon Foundation Grant for E-Book Annotation Sharing
Workshops

• Journal Usage Factors Project Publishes Results, Recommendations, and Next
Steps

• ISO Focus+ Magazine Now Available for Free Download

• OpenURL Canonical Citation Profile Approved

STANDARDS IN DEVELOPMENT

Update on NISO working groups as of August 15, 2011

Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: chodgson@niso.org
Phone: 301-654-2512