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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0;padding:0;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Name ambiguity has always been a difficult challenge in the search, discovery and retrieval of correct information about people and other entities. But recent breakthroughs have begun to make inroads in solving this ongoing problem.  On March 15, 2012</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">, the ISO certified International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) was released to uniquely identify “Public Identities of parties” – “parties” being natural persons, legal entities, and fictional characters. This was followed by</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> ORCID (originally the “</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">Open Researcher Contributor Identification Initiative”) which on October 16th of that same year began issuing persistent, unique user identifiers</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> that marked the launch of </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">a registry for author identification in science and related academic publishing. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0;padding:0;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">On January 14, 2014, NFAIS will hold a 90-minute webinar (11:00am - 12:30pm EST) that will provide an overview of ISNI (an overview of ORCID was given in October 2013). Our featured speaker will be Laura Dawson, Product Manager, Identifiers at Bowker, an affiliated business of ProQuest, who will discuss the following:</span></p>
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