RIN implementation guidance and best practice

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General guidance for RIN

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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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Artist Roles and DisplayCredits
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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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Classical Music – Genre vs Structure
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Comments
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Communicating Classical Releases and Resources
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Communicating old currencies
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Communicating Remixe(r)s
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Communication of identifiers in DDEX messages
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Communication of percentages
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Creation Dates
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Dates: exclusive vs. inclusive
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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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Genres
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Handling “odd” characters
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How long can artist names and titles be?
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How many DPIDs Do I need?
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Identifiers for resources, releases and parties
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Identifying sound recordings and videos containing the same audio
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Importing RIN Files into RIN Files
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Instrumental Music (ERN-3)
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Invalid Messages
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Java library's date bug for 2020
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Keywords
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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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No Data for Mandatory Fields
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One artist with two roles
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Opus and composer catalogue numbers
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Order of XML attributes
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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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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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Resource Types
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Rights Controller Information in ERNs to Music Licensing Companies
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Semantics of repeating XML tags
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Should I use an ISRC as the primary key for my database?
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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 & the "Key" Name
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Subtitles in Multiple Languages
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Territorial Variations in Release Descriptions
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Territory codes (ISO 3166-1, ISO 3166-3, TIS)
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Time stamp for data accuracy
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Translating and Transliterating Names
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Translating and Transliterating Titles
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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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What should a RIN File contain?
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Who owns which rights?
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Worldwide
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Writer Roles

Guidance on Releases, Resources and Works

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Classical Music – Genre vs Structure
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Communicating Classical Releases and Resources
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Creation Dates
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Genres
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Identifiers for resources, releases and parties
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Instrumental Music (ERN-3)
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Keywords
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Metadata in different languages
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Opus and composer catalogue numbers
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PLine and CLine
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Public Domain Works
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Resource Types
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Should I use an ISRC as the primary key for my database?
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Subtitles in Multiple Languages
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Territorial Variations in Release Descriptions
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Translating and Transliterating Titles
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What should a RIN File contain?

Guidance on Parties

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Guidance on Identifiers and Allowed Value Sets

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Allowed-value sets and UserDefinedValues
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Avoiding the use of proprietary Identifiers
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Bar codes of various lengths
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Can a release be identified by an ISRC?
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Communication of identifiers in DDEX messages
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Do DPIDs have hyphens?
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Excluded Territories and Worldwide
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Identifiers for resources, releases and parties
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Identifying Chapters
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Limitations of proprietary identifiers
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Malformed identifiers
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Multiple CommercialModelTypes or UseTypes in one Deal
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Multiple proprietary identification systems
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Opus and composer catalogue numbers
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Proprietary identifiers
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Referencing composites using ID and IDREF
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Should I use an ISRC as the primary key for my database?
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Specialising DDEX-Defined Values
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Territory codes (ISO 3166-1, ISO 3166-3, TIS)
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User-defined values
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Worldwide

Guidance on Dates and Time

Guidance on Choreography issues

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Acknowledgements and Non-repudiation

Guidance on XML issues

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Comments
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Direction of writing
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Do not use CDATA to concatenate data
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Importing RIN Files into RIN Files
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Invalid Messages
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Java library's date bug for 2020
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Locations of XSDs
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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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Preambles for XML-based DDEX messages
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Referencing composites using ID and IDREF
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Semantics of repeating XML tags
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Special XML characters (and how to avoid &amp;)
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Specialising DDEX-Defined Values
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User-defined values

All RIN-related guidance

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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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Artist Roles and DisplayCredits
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Avoiding the use of proprietary Identifiers
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Canonical Spellings for Names
Page:

Classical Music – Genre vs Structure
Page:

Comments
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Communicating Classical Releases and Resources
Page:

Communicating Remixe(r)s
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Communication of identifiers in DDEX messages
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Creation Dates
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Dates: exclusive vs. inclusive
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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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Genres
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Handling “odd” characters
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Identifiers for resources, releases and parties
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Importing RIN Files into RIN Files
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Instrumental Music (ERN-3)
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Invalid Messages
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Java library's date bug for 2020
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Keywords
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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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One artist with two roles
Page:

Opus and composer catalogue numbers
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Order of XML attributes
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PLine and CLine
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Preambles for XML-based DDEX messages
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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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Resource Types
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Rights Controller Information in ERNs to Music Licensing Companies
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Semantics of repeating XML tags
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Should I use an ISRC as the primary key for my database?
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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 & the "Key" Name
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Subtitles in Multiple Languages
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Territorial Variations in Release Descriptions
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Territory codes (ISO 3166-1, ISO 3166-3, TIS)
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Time stamp for data accuracy
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Translating and Transliterating Names
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Translating and Transliterating Titles
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User-defined values
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Version compatibility
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What should a RIN File contain?
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Who owns which rights?
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Worldwide
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Writer Roles

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