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ImageSnippets

ImageSnippets is an archival and curation tool. The goal of ImageSnippets is to build a persistent resource that establishes provenance and preserves the historical content and context of images. The application uses RDF syntax to ensure that the data entered…

Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians

The book, Creative Commons for Educators and Librarians, is now published under CC BY and offers an additional way to access the openly licensed CC Certificate content. It’s available in print at the ALA store, or it can be downloaded…

The International Standard Recording Code (ISRC)

The International Standard Recording Code ISRC enables recordings to be uniquely and permanently identified. ISRC helps to avoid ambiguity and simplifies the management of rights when recordings are used across different formats, distribution channels or products. The ISRC for a…

International Standard Musical Work Code (ISWC)

The ISWC (International Standard Musical Work Code) is a unique, permanent and internationally recognized reference number for the identification of musical works. The ISWC is part of the CIS plan (Common Information System) which CISAC, the confederation of societies of…

Open data Institute (ODI)

The ODI was co-founded in 2012 by the inventor of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee and artificial intelligence expert Sir Nigel Shadbolt to show the value of open data, and to advocate for the innovative use of open data to…

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

An ISSN is an 8-digit code used to identify newspapers, journals, magazines and periodicals of all kinds and on all media–print and electronic. An ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) identifies all continuing resources, irrespective of their medium (print or electronic):…

International Standard Book Number

An ISBN is an International Standard Book Number. ISBNs were 10 digits in length up to the end of December 2006, but since 1 January 2007 they now always consist of 13 digits. ISBNs are calculated using a specific mathematical…

International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN)

The ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number) is a voluntary numbering system for the identification of audiovisual works. It provides a unique, internationally recognized and permanent reference number for each audiovisual work registered in the ISAN system. An ISAN uniquely distinguishes…

International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)

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…

Global Research Identifier Database (GRID)

GRID has been broadly adopted in the Digital Science portfolio companies to facilitate data exchange, increase functionality, and support novel features. We think these benefits should be shared more widely in the scientific community to foster innovation and increase interoperability.…

kopernio

Access research papers in one click. Save time accessing full-text PDFs with the free Kopernio browser plugin. Trusted by researchers around the world. Over 250,000 researchers, librarians and academic professionals speed up their research with Kopernio. Kopernio is part of…