{ "model": { "rank": 5724, "code": "thing-q423048", "model_id": "vr.tr.international-standard-name-identifier", "name": "International Standard Name Identifier", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an ISNI, assess its assignment to a public identity, and decide whether to use, link, question or request correction of that assignment.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Information and virtual systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "INF", "domain": "INF.MED", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q423048/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "ORCID iD" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q423048", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q423048", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:07:46Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 7.8, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 90.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a07b1e-442b-7cc3-a008-d185adc47ae0\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: International Standard Name Identifier\nRegistry id: vr.tr.international-standard-name-identifier\nPlane / domain: INF / INF.MED\nRegistry definition: (" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q423048", "registryId": "vr.tr.international-standard-name-identifier", "name": "International Standard Name Identifier", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "INF.MED" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q423048/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.international-standard-name-identifier", "name": "International Standard Name Identifier", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an ISNI, assess its assignment to a public identity, and decide whether to use, link, question or request correction of that assignment.", "definition": "", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identification and operational assessment of International Standard Name Identifier assignments within registry entry vr.tr.international-standard-name-identifier, including their public-identity referents, disambiguating evidence and cross-system use; the identification scope follows [ISO 27729:2024](https://www.iso.org/standard/87177.html).", "in_scope": [ "ISNI representation, validation and authoritative lookup", "The public identity identified and its distinction from the underlying party", "Evidence supporting or contradicting an identity match", "Connections to other identity records and related public identities", "Assignment observations, correction needs and downstream handling" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Comprehensive biographies and organisation profiles", "Identification and description of works, editions, recordings and products", "Copyright ownership, royalty entitlement and licensing decisions", "Authentication credentials and proof of legal identity", "Administration of the ISO standard or operation of the registration service" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent is a public identity involved in content creation, production, management or distribution, rather than a work or publication. [ISO 27729:2024](https://www.iso.org/standard/87177.html)", "The representation has 16 characters: 15 decimal digits followed by a decimal digit or X as the check character; syntax alone does not establish assignment. [Bowker ISNI FAQ](https://isni.bowker.com/faqs)", "Separate public identities of one party can have separate ISNIs; spelling and transliteration variants can belong to one public identity. [Bowker ISNI FAQ](https://isni.bowker.com/faqs)", "A similarly formatted identifier, including an ORCID iD, must be distinguished through its declared namespace and authoritative record rather than its appearance.", "The identifier supports disambiguation and links to other information systems; it does not constitute a comprehensive identity dossier. [ISO 27729:2024](https://www.iso.org/standard/87177.html)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Representation validity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Model assessment: untested, malformed, check-character-failed, syntactically-valid", "why_it_matters": "Prevents transcription errors from becoming identity links." }, { "name": "Assignment verification", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Model assessment: unqueried, lookup-unavailable, no-record-found, record-observed", "why_it_matters": "Separates successful validation from evidence that an assignment exists." }, { "name": "Public-identity referent", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "ISNI to the public identity described by the retrieved record", "why_it_matters": "Keeps the identified persona distinct from names, works and the underlying party." }, { "name": "Name relationship", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Model assessment: same-identity-variant, separate-public-identity, unrelated-homonym, unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether an encountered name supports a match or requires separation." }, { "name": "Identity-match assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Model assessment: supported, ambiguous, contradicted, insufficient-evidence", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the agent may attach the ISNI to the intended subject." }, { "name": "Evidence age", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Elapsed days since authoritative record observation; unknown if undated", "why_it_matters": "Helps decide when an assignment or correction outcome needs another check." }, { "name": "Canonical identifier relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Observed identifier to authority-reported canonical identifier, with evidence and observation time", "why_it_matters": "Supports reconciliation when a previously used identifier is deprecated." }, { "name": "External mapping assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Model assessment: proposed, supported, disputed, stale", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an external cross-reference from silently becoming an assertion of identity equivalence." } ], "affordances": [ "Normalise a supplied ISNI and validate its representation while preserving the original input.", "Retrieve an authoritative record and compare its public identity with a candidate subject.", "Attach an evidenced ISNI to a catalogue contributor or organisation identity.", "Propose a cross-system mapping with explicit referent boundaries and supporting evidence.", "Prepare an assignment or correction request through a verified service channel.", "Reconcile local references after a confirmed canonical-identifier change while preserving history." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "isni-recognition", "name": "ISNI recognition", "description": "Determine whether the supplied value is an ISNI candidate and whether its assignment can be observed.", "rationale": "A plausible identifier string is insufficient grounds for identifying a contributor.", "layers": [ { "id": "representation-checks", "name": "Representation checks", "description": "Assess the submitted value without discarding information needed to diagnose errors.", "findings": [ { "id": "isni-syntax-and-namespace", "name": "ISNI syntax and namespace", "description": "Record the original value, normalised candidate, claimed namespace and validation result as separate observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the candidate satisfy the ISNI length, permitted-character and check-character rules?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "isni-syntax-and-namespace-q01" }, { "text": "What establishes that this value belongs to the ISNI namespace rather than another identifier scheme?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "isni-syntax-and-namespace-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assignment-lookup", "name": "Assignment lookup", "description": "Separate identifier validation from retrieval of an actual identity record.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-isni-record", "name": "Observed ISNI record", "description": "Record the lookup source, observation time and returned assignment evidence; distinguish a failed lookup from an explicit absence result.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authoritative record was retrieved for this ISNI, and when?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "observed-isni-record-q01" }, { "text": "Did the lookup return an identity record, an explicit no-record result or a service failure?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-isni-record-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "public-identity-boundaries", "name": "Public identity boundaries", "description": "Establish which public identity the ISNI identifies and how encountered names relate to it.", "rationale": "Matching at the level of a person or a name string can collapse distinct public identities.", "layers": [ { "id": "identified-persona", "name": "Identified persona", "description": "Describe the public-facing identity sufficiently to distinguish it from its underlying party and associated content.", "findings": [ { "id": "referent-and-public-use", "name": "Referent and public use", "description": "Record the identity's public name, the kind of subject represented and the context in which that identity contributes to content.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which public identity does the ISNI record describe, and in what creative or organisational context is it used?", "kind": "definition", "id": "referent-and-public-use-q01" }, { "text": "Is the proposed local subject this public identity, the underlying party or an associated work?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "referent-and-public-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "name-variation-and-personas", "name": "Name variation and personas", "description": "Assess whether name differences reflect variants, separate identities or unrelated subjects.", "findings": [ { "id": "variant-or-separate-identity", "name": "Variant or separate identity", "description": "Require evidence before treating a spelling, transliteration, abbreviation or pseudonym as equivalent to the target identity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence makes this encountered name a variant of the identified public identity rather than a separate persona or homonym?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "variant-or-separate-identity-q01" }, { "text": "If two public identities are linked through a shared party, what published evidence and applicable authorisation support recording that relationship?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "variant-or-separate-identity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contributor-disambiguation", "name": "Contributor disambiguation", "description": "Judge whether the ISNI belongs to the contributor or organisation encountered in a particular context.", "rationale": "An existing ISNI can still be attached to the wrong subject, especially when names coincide.", "layers": [ { "id": "attribution-evidence", "name": "Attribution evidence", "description": "Use content associations and contextual identity facts as evidence for a candidate match.", "findings": [ { "id": "supporting-identity-context", "name": "Supporting identity context", "description": "Record sourced agreements involving credited works, contribution roles, affiliations or dates without converting them into an exhaustive biography.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which credited works, roles or contextual facts connect the intended subject to this ISNI record?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supporting-identity-context-q01" }, { "text": "Which supporting sources are independent, and which repeat the same upstream attribution?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supporting-identity-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "conflicting-candidates", "name": "Conflicting candidates", "description": "Make homonyms, incompatible attributions and incomplete evidence visible before reuse.", "findings": [ { "id": "match-decision", "name": "Match decision", "description": "Express an evidence-based local match assessment independently of the registration service's own status.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which competing identities or conflicting facts prevent a unique match?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "match-decision-q01" }, { "text": "Is the evidence sufficient to attach the ISNI, or must the agent retain competing candidates and seek review?", "kind": "action", "id": "match-decision-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "identity-system-bridging", "name": "Identity system bridging", "description": "Assess connections between the ISNI public identity and records in other identifier systems.", "rationale": "Useful interoperability requires knowing whether linked records identify the same kind of subject.", "layers": [ { "id": "external-record-mappings", "name": "External record mappings", "description": "Evaluate the provenance and meaning of each proposed external identifier connection.", "findings": [ { "id": "mapping-referent-alignment", "name": "Mapping referent alignment", "description": "Record the external namespace, target record, asserted 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"permitted-identity-inference-q01" }, { "text": "What additional evidence would be required before using this identity match for ownership, payment or account-access decisions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "permitted-identity-inference-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "assignment-maintenance", "name": "Assignment maintenance", "description": "Track observed assignment changes and prepare justified interventions.", "rationale": "Agents need to distinguish local suspicions, submitted requests and confirmed registration outcomes.", "layers": [ { "id": "canonical-record-tracking", "name": "Canonical record tracking", "description": "Preserve identifier history when the registration record changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "deprecated-and-canonical-isnis", "name": "Deprecated and canonical ISNIs", "description": "Merged records can retain deprecated ISNIs that resolve to the canonical record; retain the observed relationship and its provenance. 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"answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a International Standard Name Identifier is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a International Standard Name Identifier, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a International Standard Name Identifier, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a International Standard Name Identifier is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a International Standard Name Identifier sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a International Standard Name Identifier, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a International Standard Name Identifier, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a International Standard Name Identifier is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a International Standard Name Identifier from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a International Standard Name Identifier, and in 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"stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a International Standard Name Identifier is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a International Standard Name Identifier, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a International Standard Name Identifier is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a International Standard Name Identifier, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a International Standard Name Identifier, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a International Standard Name Identifier is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "content-and-access", "name": "Content, encoding and access", "description": "What a International Standard Name Identifier says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content 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"answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a International Standard Name Identifier and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a International Standard Name Identifier, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a International Standard Name Identifier, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a International Standard Name Identifier is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "work-and-manifestation", "name": "Work, version and copy", "description": "Which level of International Standard Name Identifier a statement is about.", "rationale": "The work, the edition, the file and the copy in hand are four things; rights and content attach to different ones.", "layers": [ { "id": "levels", "name": "Levels of the thing", "description": "Work, expression, manifestation and item, in plain terms.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs at each level", "description": "Which facts hold for the work and which only for one copy.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "For International Standard Name Identifier, which facts belong to the work itself, which to a version, and which to a single copy?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifier exists at each level, and which one is being cited?", "kind": "definition" } ] } ] }, { "id": "versions", "name": "Versions, editions and variants", "description": "How versions differ and which is canonical to whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "version-record", "name": "Versions and canonicity", "description": "Differences that matter and who calls one authoritative.", "questions": [ { "id": "version-record-q01", "text": "Which versions or editions of International Standard Name Identifier exist, and how do they differ substantively?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "version-record-q02", "text": "Who treats which version as authoritative, and for what purpose?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authorship-and-rights", "name": "Authorship, rights and permitted use", "description": "Who made International Standard Name Identifier and what may be done with it.", "rationale": "Rights are jurisdictional, time-limited and attached to a level, and an agent that ignores that will copy what it may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "authorship", "name": "Authorship and contribution", "description": "Who contributed what, and in what capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "contribution-record", "name": "Contributors and roles", "description": "The people and bodies behind it, with their roles.", "questions": [ { "id": "contribution-record-q01", "text": "Who authored or contributed to International Standard Name Identifier, in what roles, and how is that attested?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "contribution-record-q02", "text": "Where authorship is disputed or anonymous, what is recorded instead?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rights", "name": "Rights and permissions", "description": "Which rights subsist, where, until when, and what they permit.", "findings": [ { "id": "rights-record", "name": "Rights, term and permitted acts", "description": "The regime in force and what it allows.", "questions": [ { "id": "rights-record-q01", "text": "What rights subsist in International Standard Name Identifier, in which jurisdictions, and until when?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "rights-record-q02", "text": "Which acts are permitted without further permission, and which must an agent refuse?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a International Standard Name Identifier came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a International Standard Name Identifier and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a International Standard Name Identifier, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a International Standard Name Identifier, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a International Standard Name Identifier is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a International Standard Name Identifier is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a International Standard Name Identifier, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a International Standard Name Identifier, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a International Standard Name Identifier is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }