EIDR Staff Contacts
Executive Director – Will Kreth
Engineering Director – Richard Kroon
Operations Director – Clint Richmond
Business Affairs – Paul Heim
Registry Support
EIDR Industry Promoters and Contributors are encouraged to utilize the EIDR Helpdesk to file support tickets, to learn about new policies and to keep track of the latest announcements. For additional questions regarding EIDR, please email us at [email protected], or call us at 1-877-620-EIDR. International callers can also reach us at: +1 610-293-6333.
Member-Only Organization Information
EIDR Member Technical and Business Group Webinar Archives
EIDR currently holds monthly all-member and quarterly European webinars. The webinars are comprised of updates from the Technical Working Group (TWG) and Business Working Group (BWG). Updates include:
- Technical
- Registry Operations
- Tiger Team
- Marketing Activity
- Business Cases
The monthly webinar is scheduled to occur every 3rd Tuesday of the month and begins at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time. For more information and to register for the webinar series, please contact Paul Heim.
Past Webinar Presentations:
2016 European Working Group Webinars
2016 All Member TBWG Webinars
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- All Member TBWG Webinar – Cancelled – December 2016
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- All Member TBWG Webinar – Cancelled – July 2016
- Annual Participant Meeting – January 21, 2016
2015 All Member TWG Webinars
- Annual Participant Meeting – January 22, 2015
2014 All Member TWG Webinars
- Annual Participant Meeting – January 16, 2014
2013 All Member TWG Webinars
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- Additional Member Meeting – May 21, 2013
- Annual Participant Meeting – January 16, 2013
2012 All Member TWG Webinars
Annual Participant Meetings
EIDR facilitates regular Annual Participant meetings to create a forum for direct feedback into EIDR of all interested member companies and industry partners. The Annual Participant meetings will occur at least once a year and will rotate between member company locations.
Annual Participant Meetings:
6th Annual Participant Meeting – Venice – January 19, 2017
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- Hosted by: Google
- Meeting Presentations:Annual Participant Meeting Agenda
Executive Director Opening
NBCUniversal Broadcast Operations
My Eye Media
IBM Cloud Video
TiVo
IMF
The Title Registrar
Bulk Download: Annual Participant Meeting Materials
5th Annual Participant Meeting – Culver City – January 21, 2016
- Hosted by: Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Meeting Presentations:Annual Participant Meeting Materials
4th Annual Participant Meeting – Sherman Oaks – January 22, 2015
- Hosted by: Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
- Meeting Presentations:
Annual Participant Meeting Materials
3rd Annual Participant Meeting – Burbank – January 16, 2014
- Hosted by: The Walt Disney Studios
- Meeting Presentations:Annual Participant Meeting Materials
2nd Annual Participant Meeting – Burbank – January 16, 2013
- Hosted by: Warner Bros. Studios
- Meeting Presentations:EIDR Annual Participant Meeting
Member Update by Comcast
Member Update by Warner Bros. & Microsoft – Cognizant Executive Summary
Member Update by Warner Bros. & Microsoft – Cognizant Full Version
1st Annual Participant Meeting – Burbank – January 18, 2012
- Hosted by: Walt Disney Studios at Burbank Tower
- Meeting Presentation:EIDR Annual Participant Meeting
Additional Member Meetings
Additional face-to-face member meetings may be scheduled. Meeting locations will rotate between member company locations. The member meetings will follow a similar structure and flow as the Annual Participant meeting. Topics that were intended for discussion during a monthly webinar session will be presented and discussed at the member meeting when a meeting of this type is scheduled, and the respective webinar session will be cancelled.
An announcement to the members will be made when preliminary planning begins for an event of this type. Event logistics and details will be provided as they become available.
EIDR Member Meeting – New York City – March 16, 2016
- Hosted by: EIDR at The Microsoft Technology Center
- Meeting Presentations:
EIDR Member and Outreach Meeting – New York City – November 14, 2014
- Hosted by: Viacom Media Networks
- Meeting Presentations:EIDR New York City Briefing
EIDR Broadcast Features and Video Service IDs
Member Update by Comcast – EIDR Enabling Comcast X1
Industry Update by CIMM – Measurement & Reporting
EIDR Member Meeting – Universal City – May 21st, 2013
- Hosted by: NBC Universal
- Meeting Presentations:EIDR All Member TWG Presentation
Member Update by Japan CableLaboratories
Member Update by NBC Universal & Rentrak – Theatrical Performance Reporting
Member Update by NBC Universal – Title Management System
EIDR Board of Directors
Industry Promoters are eligible for annual EIDR Board of Directors elections. If you are interested in upgrading your EIDR membership, please contact EIDR Membership.
- CableLabs – Jud Cary
- Comcast – Steve Heeb
- Disney – Mark Arana
- Google – Bill Kotzman
- ITV – Clive Bishop
- MovieLabs – Kip Welch
- Netflix – Casey Wilms
- Rovi – Todd Dietz
- Sony – Ellen Goodridge
- Warner Bros – Jeff Stevens
Developer Information
SDKs and Command Line Tools
EIDR Data
EIDR Episodic Data (Series, Season, Episode), Mar. 3, 2015
EIDR Party Data
EIDR Aliased/Deleted ListThese files are in UTF-8 encoding and are updated periodically.
Release Documentation
EIDR 2.0.9 Release Notes
EIDR 2.0.8 Release Notes
EIDR 2.0.7 Release Notes
EIDR 2.0.6 Release Notes
EIDR 2.0.5 Release Notes
EIDR 2.0 Release Notes
EIDR 1.2.1 Release Notes
EIDR 1.2 SDK Release Notes
EIDR 1.2 Release Notes
EIDR 1.1.1 SDK Release Notes
EIDR 1.1.1 Release Notes
EIDR 1.1 SDK Release Notes
EIDR 1.1 Release Notes
EIDR 1.0.4 SDK Release Notes
Registration Templates
Edit Registration Template (Update May 2014)
Clip Registration Template (Update May 2014)
Movie Registration Template (Update May 2014)
Developer Documentation
EIDR Schemas (Dec 2016)
EIDR REST API Reference (Jan 2017)
MovieLabs – Common Metadata Schemas
Other Technical Documentation
Getting Started Information
Getting Started – New Member Guide
Deployment Project Information
Technical Documentation
Best Practices
EIDR Best Practices Guide (Sep 2015)
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Best Practice – Theatrical Title Matching
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Interim Best Practice – ATSC 3.0: Ad-ID and EIDR
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Interim Best Practice – Digital Cinema
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Interim Best Practice – Publication Status Changes for Validation Rules and De-duplication
Interim Best Practice – Early Cinema & Silent Films
Interim Best Practice – Supplemental: Trailers – Theatrical
Interim Best Practice – Live Events
Interim Best Practice – Provisional Data
Interim Best Practice – Required Base Object Data
Other Best Practice Documentation is available on the public website.