For Immediate Release

28th May 2012 – Beaverton, OR, USA - Ringgold Inc. has contracted with the
ISNI International Agency to be the first ISNI (International Standard Name
Identifier) Registration Agency for institutional identification.



Ringgold will incorporate ISNIs into its Identify database of institutional
identifiers and distribute these ISNIs without charge to Ringgold’s Identify
clients. For Ringgold’s clients, this will immediately affect over 300,000
institutions worldwide.



Building on several years of experience in providing institutional
identification, Ringgold will be working with ISNI on the technical
requirements for the addition of ISNI Numbers to Ringgold’s Identify
database.  It is anticipated that all Ringgold institutional records will
have an ISNI attached to them in the latter part of 2012.  During the first
year of operation, clients using Ringgold’s standard Identify services will
receive ISNI Numbers without additional charge, to encourage them to
incorporate ISNIs into their workflows and services.  Organizations
acquiring just ISNIs without Ringgold’s other services will be charged on a
sliding scale based on the quantity of ISNIs required.



In addition, Ringgold’s free look-up service will display ISNI Numbers as
well as Ringgold ID Numbers.  The free look-up service is available at
www.openidentify.com which, after registration, enables users to search for
and obtain an institutional identification number as well as basic location
information and the Ringgold Standard Name for an institution.



ISNI has been designed as a bridge identifier between identification methods
across the media industry. It provides a unique identification number for
any public party, such as authors, fictional characters, musicians, rights
holders, publishers, and institutions. Since 2005, Ringgold has been
providing institutional identification services to publishers and
intermediaries through its Auditing services and Identify database.



Laura Cox, VP of Sales and Marketing at Ringgold said: “We are delighted to
have been recognised as an authority on institutional identification by ISNI
and anticipate that the ability to assign ISNI numbers to institutions will
open up a wide range of possibilities for everyone working in the content
creation industry.  The ability to map data from one source to the next
gives tremendous power to the data that is generated on a day-to-day basis.”



About Ringgold

Ringgold (www.ringgold.com) has created a process for the accurate
identification of institutions and the relationships between them. Each
institutional entity has been assigned its own unique Ringgold ID, which is
mapped to the organizational hierarchy and a range of classification
metadata, including consortium membership.



Ringgold provides two main services:

·           Identify – a database of over 300,000 organizations with
Ringgold IDs and associated metadata.

·           CDO – a directory of over 390 library consortia world-wide which
licence online content, fully profiled for analysis and information
regarding licensing and contacts. (www.consortiumdirectory.com)



More than 60 publishers currently use Ringgold's databases and its related
services to organize their customer data, prepare quotations for licenses
and deals, and for market penetration and gap analyses.



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About the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)

The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is an ISO Standard (ISO
27729:2012) whose scope is the identification of public identities across
multiple fields of creative activities. ISNI streamlines content
distribution chains, disambiguating natural, legal and even fictional
parties that might otherwise be confused.



ISNI is a creation of the ISNI International Agency (ISNI-IA) founded by
CISAC, the Conference of European National Librarians (represented by the
Bibliothèque  Nationale de France and the British Library), IFRRO, IPDA,
OCLC  and ProQuest.  The founding members include consortia representing
more than 26,000 major world libraries, 300 rights management societies and
research information giants OCLC and ProQuest, along with its business unit
Bowker.



Laura Cox, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Ringgold Ltd
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Giselle Rawlins, Customer Support Manager, Ringgold Ltd
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