The Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) has debuted a new use case resource, detailing some of the organization’s top partnerships and advancements with media and entertainment content companies and vendors.
The new resource debuts with six detailed use cases involving EIDR:
Authenticated Data Specification. The Authenticated Data Specification proposes the creation of a platform, which will give all content creators the ability to publish and digitally sign the metadata they produce. Consumers of the metadata will have the ability to verify the source, receive updates as they occur. Data aggregators can utilize the approved metadata on their platforms knowing that it was supplied by the content creator. EIDR provides the disambiguated, unique, and persistent identifier for the Authenticated Data Specification, acting as the Rosetta Stone for the platform. Each record carries the specific EIDR ID (title, edit, or manifestation), which is universal, providing consistency to data aggregators, content distributors, and consumers.
BB Media. BB Media is an award-winning data science company, specialized in media and entertainment. BB Media monitors more than 4,400 streaming services across 250 countries, their prices, plans, bundles, and commercial offers. Plus, all their libraries of movies and series, including normalized metadata.EIDR is one of the many sources used by BB Media to validate and normalize the data that they collect and provide to their customers. EIDR’s data quality is unmatched, and that helps BB to share the stories that the data is telling them.
Classroom Caffeine. Classroom Caffeine is an educational research podcast. In each episode, listeners hear from a leading education researcher or practitioner who shares what they want others to know about their work. Each conversation offers new insights into research, teaching, and learning. EIDR provides a unique identifier for the podcast and each of its episodes. This provides an identifier which can be used in citations and provides guests a way to be credited for their appearances in the podcast.
Cloud Localization Blueprint. Rapid and cost-effective localization is key to entertainment companies delivering their content to market and bringing international content to the established English-language marketplace. However, in many cases, the localization process is neither ‘rapid’, nor ‘cost-effective.’ The CLB outlines a process and technology which removes bottlenecks and improves supply chain interoperability. EIDR sits right in the middle of the Cloud Localization Blueprint. It is part of the architecture which provides the interoperability needed to allow any number of companies, platforms, technologies, etc. to communicate without direct or point to point integrations. EIDR provides the standard for identifying the assets that are created, localized, and distributed. EIDR is the common language of the workflow. This method of automation can be used in various other workflows as well.
PBS. PBS is a membership organization that, in partnership with its member stations, serves the American public with programming and services of the highest quality, using media to educate, inspire, entertain, and express a diversity of perspectives. PBS is a private, nonprofit corporation, founded in 1969, whose members are America’s public TV stations — noncommercial, educational licensees that operate more than 330 PBS member stations and serve all 50 states, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. PBS uses EIDR IDs and its data model to normalize the collection of catalog metadata. PBS uses EIDR’s required fields as a baseline to collect required metadata for licensed content. Because episodic titles are known closer to a show’s release, EIDRs are assigned and stored in PBS’s rights management system to identify assets correctly. Additionally, as a distributor, PBS delivers fully packaged content to its national member stations. To facilitate this process, an EIDR Manifestation ID is assigned and accompanies each media file to local station servers to enable identification and disambiguation.
Fabric Studio. Fabric Studio is a cloud SAAS platform that allows customers to manage editorial, technical, and other metadata about TV shows, movies, documentaries, games and more. Fabric Studio provides the entertainment industry with the world’s best data solutions, helping them to connect people with the content that they love, from the biggest Hollywood studios and VOD streaming platforms to independent distributors, agencies and video game publishers. Fabric Studio comes with an EIDR integration out of the box, which saves time and money for customers. With EIDR at the heart of the platform, the process of registering EIDR IDs and using them to deduplicate titles and versions is simplified and seamless. Fabric Studio allows metadata teams to merge the data from EIDR and other metadata providers with their own internally curated data sources, giving them the most complete picture possible.
EIDR is inviting others in media and entertainment who have EIDR use cases to share to contact [email protected].