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List | Code | Heading | Add | Mod | Dep | ? |
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44 | Name identifier type Used with • <NameIDType> <x415> • <SenderIDType> <m379> • <AddresseeIDType> <m380> • <AffiliationIDType> <x580> • <ImprintIDType> <x445> • <PublisherIDType> <x447> • <CopyrightOwnerIDType> <b392> • <ProductContactIDType> <x483> • <EventSponsorIDType> <x522> • <ConferenceSponsorIDType> <b391> • <RecordSourceIDType> <x311> • <SupplyContactIDType> <x538> |
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44 | 01 | Proprietary Note that <IDTypeName> is required with proprietary identifiers |
10 | ✽ | ||
44 | 02 | Proprietary Deprecated – use code 01 |
10 | 10 | ✽ | |
44 | 03 | DNB publisher identifier Deutsche Nationalbibliothek publisher identifier |
1 | ✽ | ||
44 | 04 | Börsenverein Verkehrsnummer (de: Verkehrsnummer ded Börsenverein des deutschen Buchhandels) |
1 | 63 | ✽ | |
44 | 05 | German ISBN Agency publisher identifier (de: MVB-Kennnummer) |
1 | 63 | ✽ | |
44 | 06 | GLN GS1 global location number (formerly EAN location number) |
1 | 9 | ✽ | |
44 | 07 | SAN Book trade Standard Address Number – US, UK etc |
1 | 6 | ✽ | |
44 | 08 | MARC organization code MARC code list for organizations – see http://www.loc.gov/marc/organizations/orgshome.html |
28 | ✽ | ||
44 | 10 | Centraal Boekhuis Relatie ID Trading party identifier used in the Netherlands |
4 | ✽ | ||
44 | 12 | Distributeurscode Boekenbank Flemish supplier code. Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later |
59 | ✽ | ||
44 | 13 | Fondscode Boekenbank Flemish publisher code |
7 | ✽ | ||
44 | 15 | Y-tunnus Business Identity Code (Finland). See http://www.ytj.fi/ (in Finnish) |
8 | ✽ | ||
44 | 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 https://isni.org/ |
10 | ✽ | ||
44 | 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 | ✽ |
44 | 18 | NACO A control number assigned to a Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) Name Authority / NACO record |
10 | 51 | ✽ | |
44 | 19 | Japanese Publisher identifier Publisher identifier administered by Japanese ISBN Agency |
12 | ✽ | ||
44 | 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 | 18 | ✽ |
44 | 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 | ✽ | ||
44 | 22 | GAPP Publisher Identifier Publisher identifier maintained by the Chinese ISBN Agency (GAPP) |
15 | ✽ | ||
44 | 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 | ✽ | ||
44 | 24 | JP Distribution Identifier 4-digit business organization identifier controlled by the Japanese Publication Wholesalers Association |
17 | ✽ | ||
44 | 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 | ✽ | ||
44 | 26 | DUNS Dunn and Bradstreet Universal Numbering System, see http://www.dnb.co.uk/dandb-duns-number |
22 | ✽ | ||
44 | 27 | Ringgold ID Ringgold organizational identifier, see http://www.ringgold.com/identify.html |
22 | ✽ | ||
44 | 28 | Identifiant Editeur Electre French Electre publisher identifier |
24 | ✽ | ||
44 | 29 | EIDR Party ID Entertainment Identifier Registry party identifier (a DOI beginning ‘10.5237/’ with a suffix of 8 hexadecimal digits and one hyphen, and without the https://doi.org/ or the older http://dx.doi.org/), for example ‘10.5237/C9F6-F41F’ (Sam Raimi). See http://eidr.org |
29 | 68 | ✽ | |
44 | 30 | Identifiant Marque Electre French Electre imprint Identifier |
24 | ✽ | ||
44 | 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 | ✽ | ||
44 | 32 | FundRef DOI DOI used in CrossRef’s Open Funder Registry list of academic research funding bodies, for example ‘10.13039/100010269’ (Wellcome Trust). Use of RORs for funder identifiers is now preferred. See https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/ |
27 | 67 | ✽ | |
44 | 33 | BNE CN Control number assigned to a Name Authority record by the Biblioteca Nacional de España |
35 | ✽ | ||
44 | 34 | BNF Control Number Numéro de la notice de personne BNF |
36 | ✽ | ||
44 | 35 | ARK Archival Resource Key, as a URL (including the address of the ARK resolver provided by eg a national library) |
36 | ✽ | ||
44 | 36 | Nasjonalt autoritetsregister Nasjonalt autoritetsregister for navn – Norwegian national authority file for personal and corporate names. Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later |
37 | ✽ | ||
44 | 37 | GRID Global Research Identifier Database ID (see https://www.grid.ac). Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later. Deprecated – ROR is now generally preferred |
39 | 60 | 60 | ✽ |
44 | 38 | IDRef Party ID from Identifiers and Standards for Higher Education and Research (fr: Identifiants et Référentiels pour l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche). Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later. See https://www.idref.fr |
52 | ✽ | ||
44 | 39 | IPI Party ID from CISAC’s proprietary Interested Party Information scheme, used primarily in rights and royalies administration. Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later |
57 | ✽ | ||
44 | 40 | ROR Research organization registry identifier (see https://ror.org), leading 0 followed by 8 alphanumeric characters (including 2-digit checksum). Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later |
58 | ✽ | ||
44 | 41 | EORI Economic Operators Registration and Identification, identifier for businesses that import into or export from the EU. Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later |
59 | ✽ | ||
44 | 42 | LEI Legal Entity Identifier, administered by the Global LEI Foundation, as 20 alphanumeric characters without spaces or hyphens. Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later |
62 | ✽ | ||
44 | 43 | SIREN French business identifier, issued by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). 9 digits, without spaces. Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later |
63 | ✽ | ||
44 | 44 | SIRET French business and location identifier, issued by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). 14 digits (the SIREN plus a further five digits), without spaces, or occasionally an alphanumeric code. Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later |
63 | ✽ | ||
44 | 45 | Chinese Participant identifier Chinese Participant identifier on the Publishing and distribution public service platform. 12-digits (or 11 digits plus X), usually presented with a / and hyphens dividing the number into groups of three, four and four digits plus a check digit, but in ONIX the / and hyphens should be omitted. Only for use in ONIX 3.0 or later |
68 | ✽ |
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