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General guidance for LRAW

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Acknowledgements and non-repudiation
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Allowed-value sets and UserDefinedValues
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Artist name changes over time
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Avoiding the use of proprietary Identifiers
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Bar codes of various lengths
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Canonical spellings for names
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Comments
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Common language and script code combinations
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Communicating old currencies
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Communication of identifiers in DDEX messages
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Communication of percentages
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Date/time tags and Time Zone Designators
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Dealing with uncommon use cases
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Direction of writing
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Do DPIDs have hyphens?
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Do not use CDATA to concatenate data
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Field length and precision
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GDPR and UGC
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Handling 'odd' characters
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How many DPIDs Do I need?
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Identifiers for resources and releases and parties
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Identifying sound recordings and videos containing the same audio
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Invalid Messages
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Java library's date bug for 2020
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Lengths of artist names
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Limitations of proprietary identifiers
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Locations of XSDs
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Malformed identifiers
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Metadata in different languages
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Multiple proprietary identification systems
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Namespace and file locations for the XSD for allowed value sets
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Order of XML attributes
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Origin and trustworthiness of MEAD and PIE information
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Parental advice labels
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PLine and CLine
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Preambles for XML-based DDEX messages
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Precision of numeric values in MWN
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Priorities for metadata items
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Proprietary identifiers
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Public domain works
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Referencing composites using ID and IDREF
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Semantics of repeating XML tags
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Special characters
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Special XML characters (and how to avoid &amp;)
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Specialising DDEX-Defined Values
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Splitting names and the importance of the KeyName
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Territorial variations in release descriptions
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Territory codes using ISO 3166-1 or ISO 3166-3 or TIS
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Time stamp for data accuracy
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Use of ISRCs as the primary database key
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User-defined values
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Version compatibility
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Versioning Allowed Value Sets
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What can I do if I have data requirements not addressed by DDEX
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Who owns which rights?
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Worldwide
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Writer roles