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Standardization: templates and formats

International identifiers


Note: the international identifiers presented below are based on international standards published by ISO and then translated into French and published by AFNOR. The description of these standards is available on the AFNOR website.

ISAN - Audiovisual works

Status: Approved standard
Current edition: 2002, November; 2003, October (fr)

  • NF ISO 15706 (ISO 15706-1:2002). ISO. Information and documentation - International Standard Audiovisual Item Number (ISAN). 2003.

Status: Approved standard
Current edition: 2007, June; November (en)

ISBN - Books

Status : Approved standard
1st edition : 1972
Current edition : 2017, December ; 2018, August (fr)

  • NF ISO 2108 (ISO 2108:2005). ISO. Information and documentation - International Standard Book Number (ISBN). 2006.

ISCI - Library holdings

Status: Draft International Standard 

  • ISO/FDIS 27730. ISO. Information and documentation - International standard collection identifier (ISCI).

ISIL - Libraries

Status: International standard
Current edition: 2019, June

  • ISO 15511:2019. ISO. Information and Documentation - International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organisations (ISIL).

i.e.: as theagency ISIL nationalAbes is in charge of assigning an ISIL identifier to any requesting library, including those not participating in theAbes networks. This service is used in particular for the RFID equipment of libraries.

ISMN - Music

Status: International standard
Current edition: 2009, August

ISNI - Names, Public Identities

Status: international standard
Current edition: 2012

Namely: the ORCID(Open Researcher and Contributor ID), dedicated to the identification of researchers as authors and contributors of scientific publications, is structured according to the ISNI standard, in the framework of an interoperability agreement. ORCID uses for example ISNI for the identification of researchers' affiliation institutions (see below)

ISRC - Registrations

Status: Approved standard
1st edition: 1986
Current edition: 2019, February; 2019, August (fr)

ISSN - Serial Publications

Status : Approved standard
Current edition : 2017, October ; 2017, October (fr)

namely: members of the networks Sudoc and Sudoc PS contribute to the quality of ISSN data. The professional application CIDEMIS is available to them to submit requests for ISSN assignment and/or correction of ISSN records to the 90 ISSN network centres around the world. More information

ISTC - Textual works

Status: International standard
Current edition: 2009, March; October (en)

  • ISO 21047:2009. ISO. Information and documentation - International Standard Text Code (ISTC). 2009.

ISWC - Musical Works

Status: Approved standard
Current edition: 2001, November; 2003, October (fr)