So, I mean, the topic of the of the presentation, I mean of the general subject of the of this fair is more about data. So I thought a bit about it and decided to focus on how we we've worked here at the ISS and I see in making the ice and data interoperable with

various external sources that we use and that, in a way, increase the quality of the data we produce. The outline in a nutshell, I will start with a brief description of the ISS International Center and network and

say a bit more about the ice and portal. And in a third part just focus on interoperability and how we improve quality through various array of partnership.

So, first of all, the ISS International Center has a mission to serve as a liaison between the publishing industry and the library community. We want to develop global information services for serial and continuing resources based on international standards and multilateral cooperation.

And with the ice and portal, and I will come to this in a moment. And the metadata. It hosts. Our idea is to build new services are complimentary services with the support of international partners from the information

industry, and our values at the ISIS and I see, and within the ice and network are the commitment to international cooperation I mean we're global, because we have more than, well, 93 members member countries and member organizations.

We want to also to act quickly, you know response, responding to the needs of our community and I've already mentioned a few constituencies that we work with libraries, publishers, information providers.

And I services. Also assessment I mean services that assess the quality of the scientific output. We are committed to quality information and standards, and we provide

expertise in information management, and we're also very dedicated to service innovation. So I will start with saying that, as you may know the ISIS and is a nice or standard. I associated to 97, and actually, it was created in in the 70s. And since then

we have, you know, regularly updated the standard itself, and the services linked to, to the standard. So we identify journals continuing resources both print and digital, and as you can see on the screen. The latest edition of the standard was published in October 2020.

And we are about to revise it because it's a non ending and never ending process, and we still have a few things to to amend. So we'll start doing that next year. In the eyes and portal where you can find 2.8 million identifiers and of course resources share resources was actually identifier and description.

And among these 2.8 million titles. There are approximately or nearly 300,000 digital resources and it's increasing and it's.

Of course it increased a lot in 2020. So, I was talking about, I mean, in my introduction saying that we are global, because we have more than well we have 93 member countries, which owes 93 ISIS and national centers, and we very, we are very much linked to the activity of ISO.

Here, the ISIS international center, based in Paris, is the ISIS and registration authority, and we worked with 93 ISIS and registration agencies

so we are constantly, you know, in, in, in discussion or dialogue with the centers around the world, and we launched this year. Three new national centers in Austria, Peru, and Ukraine, meaning that actually

the publishers based in these countries can now request identification directly in in. I mean, for example in Austria, it's the Federation of publishers, Peru, it's the National Library of Peru, and in Ukraine, the Book Chamber of Ukraine, meaning that we are more, I mean we get closer to the users.

And so to publishers there, and also of course to subscribers or users of our services. The ISSN portal launched in 2018, and we have released actually ISSN data for free. This data is sufficient to identify resources,

and we have also free services which are built on our data, such as the directory of open access resources, scholarly resources,

ROAD, and keepers registry and I will come to that in a minute. So ROAD started in 2013, and here you can find complete ISSN data describing nearly 50,000 open access titles with a reusable data dump, and we cross reference this data with our partner's data.

So for example with DOAJ, so we work very closely with DOAJ, it has been a partner for many, many years. Also with other partners such as Scopus, etc. You can just, you know, since it's a free service, you can browse

the resources and the titles there and you will find out, you know, which titles are actually referenced in other databases, other also, you know, well known or well established databases made by or built by partners we work with.

The second service I want to focus on is keepers. Keepers registry was created first by Edina at the University of Edinburgh, and two

years ago actually we took over the service which is also built on ISSN data. We get some information about the preservation status of serial titles. As you can see there are approximately 67,000 titles archived as of October 2021.

And we work with 13 archiving agencies, I can name a few but you can check the list on the website. For example, we work closely with clocks, we've just added the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

And also we work with the Library of Congress, etc, etc. So, this is also very important because through the information or the data about the archiving status of these titles we can cross check

the description of these titles and improve in a way the quality of our data and the quality of our partner data. You can find on the keepers, a specific page with statistics about, you know, which titles are preserved by which agency and what is the overlap between

the preservation, I mean the preserved titles, you know, for example, I've just mentioned the Bibliothèque nationale de France so they mainly preserve titles in French or published in France. And we can see through the statistics that the preserved titles, there is not a lot of

overlap with other preservation agencies. It's the same, for example, Rede Cariniana, which is based in Brazil. It's also very important to see that these specific agencies have, are very, let's say, exotic

in a way, not exotic, but they preserve titles, which are not preserved by the largest archiving agencies such as Portico or Clocks, which are very well known. So they are complementary and this also speaks about, you know, adding more archiving agencies and local ones or agencies which are actually involved in preserving local content or regional content.

So we are looking for this kind of cooperation with this type of archiving agencies.

Okay, what are the projects we have that are important to enhance our data and the data which is made available to our, of course, to free users, and also to our subscribers, because we have a freemium model. We've worked closely with Springer Nature to cover all their serial pre-publications and by pre

-publication in this case, I mean journals but also monographic series, you know, collections of books. We also work with NYISO and a specific group called Transfer to track transfers of titles between

publishers. That's also a free service that we've built on the ISSN portal and on ISSN data. We have a partnership with DOJ but I've already mentioned that to track open access titles and

we compare, you know, their holdings with ours, trying to identify gaps or, you know, missing information. And we, to enhance this interoperability, we would like also, and we've started investigating that, to assign ISNIs, which are, which is also an ISO standard for name identifier.

So it is a standard for the identification of, you know, organizations but also individuals. And we would like to work with them to improve, you know, the identification of publishers

within our database, sharing information also with, of course, all the agencies that cooperate within ISNI. So that's, in a nutshell, what I wanted to talk about and, well, thank you for questions or comments. Happy to respond, if I can.

Thank you.