Vocabulary

ISNI

International Standard Name Identifier

ISNI is the ISO certified global standard number for identifying the millions of contributors to creative works and those active in their distribution, including researchers, inventors, writers, artists, visual creators, performers, producers, publishers, aggregators, and more. It is part of a family of international standard identifiers that includes identifiers of works, recordings, products and right holders in all repertoires, e.g. DOI, ISAN, ISBN, ISRC, ISSN, ISTC, and ISWC.

E6

FAIR 9/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepageisni.org

Portals & registries

Also registered as
wikidata.entity: Q423048

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR1/12
  • Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
  • Indexed in services (F4)1: Bioregistry+1
  • Citable reference (F2)no reference publication listed0
A Accessible FAIR6/12
  • Homepage reachableHTTP 403+3
  • Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)no download or repository listed0
  • Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3
I Interoperable FAIR0/12
  • Formal machine-readable format (I1)none of: —0
  • Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
  • References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0
R Reusable FAIR2/12
  • Clear license (R1.1)http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0 (not a recognised open license)+2
  • Release provenance (R1.2)no version in artefact, registry or release tags0
  • Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0
Q Ontology consistency & qualityn/a
  • Not applicablevocabulary without an OWL/OBO/RDF artefact; total scaled from 80 to 1000
M Maintenance0/16
  • Recencyno activity evidence0
  • Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0
U Community adoption0/16
  • Documented adopting projects0 projects0
  • Reused by other ontologies00
  • Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 0 → 0)0
P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-5
  • No activity evidenceno commits, releases or dated files found-5
  • Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0

FAIR subtotal 9/48 · earned 9/80 → scaled 11 − 5 inactivity = 6/100 → grade E

Community adoption 0

No adopting projects documented yet.

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History & changes 1 run

History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.

RunScoreFAIRVersion evaluatedTermsSnapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC6 E9——JSON

Provenance

Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.

FactSourceRetrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 403)isni.org26 Oct 2026, 03:01 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reusebioregistry.io26 Oct 2026, 03:01 UTC

Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot