Since 2010 Beat Barblan serves as Director of Identifier Services at Bowker (.book). He is responsible for such identifier standards and asset management and discoverability solutions as ISBN and ISNI and is the acting head of the US and Australian ISBN Agencies. These solutions are renowned for their ability to standardize works across the book industry and content services supply chain, benefitting publishers, self publishers, authors, book sellers, aggregators, and other book industry professionals. Bowker is an affiliated business of ProQuest..[1] [2]

Country: USA
Email: beat.barblan [at] bowker.com
LinkedIn:    [Beat Barblan Beat Barblan]

Barblan is involved with ICANN through NTAG.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 ICANNWiki - ICANN 48 Intake Form, November 2013
  2. Beat Barblan, LinkedIn.com