ISAN Metadata

Data field

Description

ISAN^*

ISAN of the audiovisual work. 16 hexadecimal digit followed with a check character (using Arabic numerals 0 to 9 and letters A to Z), followed by an 8 hexadecimal digit version segment, followed with a check character (using Arabic numerals 0 to 9 and letters A to Z).

Work Type^*

The classification of the audiovisual work into a category such as “Documentary”, “Feature Film”, “News”, etc…

Work Kind^*

The classification of the audiovisual work into a category such as “Animated” Work, “Live Action” or “both”.

Work Titles^*

The list of original and alternative titles of the audiovisual work. All titles have a title type (original/alternative) and a language code associated.

Year of Reference^*

The year of production or copyright for the AV work.

Year of First Publication

The year of 1^st publication of the AV work.

Duration^*

The approximate duration of the work with its time unit (minutes / seconds).

Color Kind^*

Color scheme that applies to the moving images of the AV work, being “Color”, “Black & White”, “Colorized”, etc…

Original Language^*

The list of spoken / written language(s) in the original release of the AV work.

Country of Reference

List of countries where the AV work has been produced and/or shooted. The distinction between countries of production and countries of shooting is provided.

Participant List^*

AV work participant’s information:  First name, last name and role being played (producer, director, actor, etc…).

Episode Details

Specific information for episodes of serials, being the list of titles of the serial, the episode number and the season.

Production Companies

The name of the company(ies) that have produced the AV work.

Composite Work

Relationship made of a list of ISAN, to other AV works that compose the Work being described.

Linked Identifiers

Other referenced identifiers for the audiovisual work or related to the audiovisual work.

Data field

Description

V-ISAN^*

ISAN of the version of an audiovisual work. 16 hexadecimal digit followed with a check character (using Arabic numerals 0 to 9 and letters A to Z), followed by an 8 hexadecimal digit version segment, followed with a check character (using Arabic numerals 0 to 9 and letters A to Z).

Parent Work^*

ISAN of the parent audiovisual work from which the version derives

Parent Relationship^*

The relationship between the parent work and the version, such as “extract of”, “Theatrical Editing”, “Media Fixation”, etc..

Version Kind^*

The classification of the version: Language, Edition, Media, Related Item, Related Content, Generic version

Description Name

a description of the version, generally the name by which the version is known by the registrant

Version Titles^*

The list of original and alternative titles of the version. All titles have a title type (original/alternative) and a language code associated.

Version Year/Date^*

Year or date of reference for the version. This can be the year of release for the versions (e.g.  a Blu-ray edition), or the broadcast date and time of a TV program (e.g. 2012-11-23-18:05:22).

Running Time^*

The running time of the version. Can be expressed in minutes, seconds or milliseconds

Version Language Description

A formatted description of all spoken, written and subtitles languages for the version

Image details

The technical image details for the versions such as color, dimension, definition, aspect ratio.

Media of Fixation

The media on which the version is fixed (DCP, Blu-ray, Tape, celluloid…) and the digital container format (whenever applicable)

Version distribution

The country(ies) of distribution, the distribution channel and distribution platform

Rating & content alerts

Rating systems for almost 50 countries available in the ISAN system. Several rating countries and systems can be applied to the same version.

External Identifiers

Other referenced identifiers for the version or related to the version.