DDEX abbreviations
There are a lot of abbreviations used in DDEX beyond the actual field or cell names used in the standards themselves. If you are new to DDEX you may find abbreviations that you are not familiar with. The link below provides explanations of abbreviations you will come across in the DDEX standards and this knowledge base.
AVS | Allowed Value Set |
BP | Business Profile |
BWARM | Bulk Communication of Work and Recording Metadata |
CDM | Claim Detail Message |
CISAC | Confédération internationale des sociétés d'auteurs et compositeurs, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (see cisac.org ) |
CMO | Collective Management Organisation |
DAW | Digital Audio Workstation |
DDEX | Digital Data Exchange |
DPID | DDEX Party Identifier |
DSP | Digital Service Provider |
DSR | Digital Sales Reporting |
ERN | Electronic Release Notification |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
GRid | Global Release Identifier |
HTTP | Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP specifically includes HTTPS) |
HTTPS | Secure Hypertext Transport Protocol |
ICPN | International Code Product Number |
IFPI | International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (see ifpi.org) |
ISNI | International Standard Name Identifier (see isni.org ) |
ISO | International Organisation for Standardisation (see iso.org) |
ISRC | International Standard Recording Code (see isrc.org) |
ISWC | International Standard Musical Work Code (see iswc.org) |
LoD | Letters of Direction |
MEAD | Media Enrichment and Description |
MLC | The Mechanical Licensing Collective (DDEX did use MLC for music licensing companies in the past but has phased out this use of that abbreviation to avoid confusion) |
MMA | Music Modernization Act |
MRBC | Muilt Record Block Variant |
MWL | Musical Works Licensing |
MWN | Musical Works Notification |
OAUTH | An open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for Internet users to grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords. |
Portable Document Format | |
PIE | Party Identification and Enrichment |
RDR | Recording Data and Rights |
REST | REpresentational State Transfer |
RIN | Recording Information Notification |
SFTP | Secure FTP |
SRBV | Single Record Block Variant |
TIS | Territory Information System (a CISAC Standard) |
TLS | Transport Layer Security |
UGC | User-generated content |
URI | Uniform Resource Identifier |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
W3C | World Wide Web Consortium (see w3c.org) |
WS | Web Service |
XML | eXtensible Markup Language |
XSD | XML Schema Definition |