Institutions wish to enhance and promote their reputation to attract funders and faculty and to increase their ranking. Since universities change their official names as part of branding activities, academic departments change their names to reflect new curricular emphasis, and schools merge with or separate from parent institutions, institutional identifiers are crucial to accurately represent scholars’ affiliations both on their output and on grant applications. Institutions may not realize they already have such an institutional identifier, ISNI, and that this identifier has already been disseminated, used by ORCID and included in VIAF and Wikidata. In this presentation from CNI's spring 2015 meeting, Karen Smith-Yoshimura of OCLC Research summarizes the current work of a task force on use cases and challenges of representing organizations in the ISNI database.

Challenges Presented by Institutional Identifiers is now available online: Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/136100763 YouTube: https://youtu.be/csHjdVL3DLU

Previously-released videos from this meeting:

-Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective (Cawthorne, Lewis, Spiro) https://vimeo.com/134886596

-Integrating Digital Epigraphies (Sosin) https://youtu.be/bJjavOjaEKs

-Electronic Laboratory Notebooks: More than Notes (Wolf, Cheetham) https://vimeo.com/129894234

-Software Curation as a Digital Preservation Service (Webster, Cochrane) https://youtu.be/w7nTIFR-g88

-BIBFLOW: A Roadmap for Library Linked Data Implementation (Smith, Stahmer, Miller) https://vimeo.com/129797055

-Social Networks and Archival Context: From R&D to Cooperative Program (Pitti, Tingle) https://youtu.be/iTlodzmEABM

-Big Screen: Hands-on Immersive Environments Designed for Student and Faculty Collaboration (Sinclair, Hurley, Sexton) https://vimeo.com/126524249

-Managing Public Video Walls in an Academic Library (Sadler, Nutt, Reaume) https://youtu.be/9mlLpkg6KEM

-Realizing the Potential of Research Data (Carole Palmer, University of Washington) https://vimeo.com/125487614

-Providing Universal Access to Modern Materials – and Living to Tell the Tale (Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive) https://youtu.be/-bW0v2F9Rgc

Look for more announcements soon on videos of other sessions from the spring 2015 CNI meeting. To see all CNI videos, visit our channels on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).

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