ONIX Code Lists Issue 30, July 2015
List 44: Name code type

Value Description Notes

01 Proprietary
02 Proprietary DEPRECATED – use 01
03 DNB publisher identifier Deutsche Nationalbibliothek publisher identifier
04 Börsenverein Verkehrsnummer
05 German ISBN Agency publisher identifier
06 GLN GS1 global location number (formerly EAN location number)
07 SAN Book trade Standard Address Number – US, UK etc
08 MARC organization code MARC code list for organizations – see http://www.loc.gov/marc/organizations/orgshome.html
10 Centraal Boekhuis Relatie ID Trading party identifier used in the Netherlands
13 Fondscode Boekenbank Flemish publisher code
15 Y-tunnus Business Identity Code (Finland). See http://www.ytj.fi/ (in Finnish)
16 ISNI International Standard Name Identifier. See http://www.isni.org/
17 PND Personennamendatei – person name authority file used by Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and in other German-speaking countries. See http://www.d-nb.de/standardisierung/normdateien/pnd.htm (German) or http://www.d-nb.de/eng/standardisierung/normdateien/pnd.htm (English). DEPRECATED in favour of the GND
18 LCCN A control number assigned to a Library of Congress Name Authority record
19 Japanese Publisher identifier Publisher identifier administered by Japanese ISBN Agency
20 GKD Gemeinsame Körperschaftsdatei – Corporate Body Authority File in the German-speaking countries. See http://www.d-nb.de/standardisierung/normdateien/gkd.htm (German) or http://www.d-nb.de/eng/standardisierung/normdateien/gkd.htm (English). DEPRECATED in favour of the GND
21 ORCID Open Researcher and Contributor ID. See http://www.orcid.org/
22 GAPP Publisher Identifier Publisher identifier maintained by the Chinese ISBN Agency (GAPP)
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
24 JP Distribution Identifier 4-digit business organization identifier controlled by the Japanese Publication Wholesalers Association
25 GND Gemeinsame Normdatei – Joint Authority File in the German-speaking countries. See http://www.dnb.de/EN/Standardisierung/Normdaten/GND/gnd_node.html (English). Combines the PND, SWD and GKD into a single authority file, and should be used in preference
26 DUNS Dunn and Bradstreet Universal Numbering System, see http://www.dnb.co.uk/dandb-duns-number
27 Ringgold ID Ringgold organizational identifier, see http://www.ringgold.com/pages/identify.html
28 Identifiant Editeur Electre French Electre publisher identifier
29 EIDR Party DOI DOI used in EIDR party registry, for example ‘10.5237/C9F6-F41F’ (Sam Raimi). See http://eidr.org
30 Identifiant Marque Electre French Electre imprint Identifier
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
32 FundRef DOI DOI used in CrossRef’s Fundref list of academic research funding bodies, for example ‘10.13039/100004440’ (Wellcome Trust). See http://www.crossref.org/fundref/fundref_registry.html