Identifiers for resources and releases and parties
DDEX supports the communication of different identifiers for different purposes. Below please find a table of permissible identifiers for some of the entities:
Sound Recordings | Videos | Releases | Parties |
|---|---|---|---|
ISRC | ISRC | GRid | DPID |
ISAN | ISRC (see below) | ISNI | |
V-ISAN | UPC | ||
EAN | |||
Catalogue Number(*) | Catalogue Number(*) | Catalogue Number(*) | |
ProprietaryId(*) | ProprietaryId(*) | ProprietaryId(*) | ProprietaryId(*) |
Entries marked with an asterisk are proprietary identifiers and therefore need to be accompanied by a namespace attribute,
Do not use an ISRC as a Release Identifier
In the past, ISRCs have been used to identify Releases that contain only one primary Resource (e.g. single track releases such as RIngtones):
<ReleaseId> <ISRC>BRBMG0300729</ISRC> </ReleaseId>
In that case the code BRBMG0300729 is a "displaced identifier" (the identifier of the sole primary resource used as a proxy identifier for the Release). This use is being deprocated and the ISRC element may be removed from the ReleaseId composite in the future.