AVS

A string from a set of allowed values as defined in Clause 6.4.11.

Download

Boolean

A string containing either true or false

true

Date

A date in the ISO 8601 format to indicate a single year (YYYY), month (YYYY-MM) or day (YYYY-MM-DD).

2015-01-09

DDEX Party ID

A string of 18 characters in accordance with the DDEX Party ID standard. DDEX Party IDs, when included in a file or message, shall not contain dashes.

PADPIDA2014122301Q

Decimal

A sequence of digits to represent positive or negative integer numbers, positive or negative decimal fractions or zero. In addition:

The character used to separate the integers from fractions is the dot (“.”, Unicode U+002E);

Thousands separators or any other digit grouping shall not be used; 

Trailing zeros should not be used, so the value 5.5 should not be represented as 5.50 or 5.5000;

Notwithstanding the above, when a field of type “decimal” is to communicate an integer, the number may be represented with a single trailing “.0” or with no trailing characters. For example, the number five can be represented as 5 or 5.0; and

When the number 0 (zero) is to be communicated in a Cell for decimal values, this shall be represented as 0 only (and not 0.0or 0.000000).

Details on the precision of decimals are provided in Clause 6.4.10.

123 

123.567 

-5.25 

0

Duration

A duration in the ISO 8601 format (P[nY][nM][nD][T[nH][nM]nS]). Seconds may include decimal fractions.

Elements including their designator may be omitted if their value is zero. The expressions PT3M2S (three minutes and two seconds) and PT182S (182 seconds) are both permitted and are equivalent.

PT3M2S

PT1.004S

Integer

A sequence of digits to represent positive or negative integer numbers, or zero. Details of the range of integers permitted are provided in Clause 6.4.10.

35672

PartyID

A string in the form IdType::ID where IdType identifies the identification scheme. Examples for IdType are:

• “ISNI” for an ISO 27729 International Standard Name Identifier;

• “IPI” for a CISAC Interested Party Identifier name number; or

• “IPN” for a SCAPR International Performer Number.

The ID element then contains the identifier in the format defined by the identification scheme. Only one identifier can be communicated for each party in a PartyID field.

ISNI::0000000081266409 

String

A sequence of characters with a length of at least one character. This part of the RDR standard does not define a maximum length. Strings may not contain non-printable characters (Unicode U+0000 to U+001F).

George Harrison

Multiple String

A sequence of 0-n strings separated by a Secondary Delimiter. 

If the sender has only one data item to provide, the value shall be included without any Secondary Delimiters. The same applies to cases where the sender has multiple data elements but only wishes to communicate one in accordance with the bilateral agreement between the sender and the recipient. 

If such an element is mandatory, at least one such data item must be provided.  

Cells that may contain multiple values may be related. For example, one multiple-string Cell may be for names of composers/lyricists and it may be followed by a multiple-string Cell for identifiers of these composers/lyricists. In those cases, both Cells must contain the same number of Secondary Delimiters.

The same concept can also be used for all other primitive data types listed here.

John

John|Paul|George|Ringo

John|||Ringo

Multiple Multiple String

In order to communicate a list of lists, the Delimiter for the inner list shall be escaped to \|. One such example is the provision of multiple identifiers for multiple writers of a musical work.

ISNI::0000000121174585\|VIAF::196844| ISNI::0000000121452530\|VIAF::100252012(two identifiers for two people)