What needs to be provided to conduct Discovery and Explorer Tests for ISNI matching services?

What needs to be provided to conduct Discovery and Explorer Tests for ISNI matching services?

Provide to Quansic

To conduct the Discovery or Explorer tests, all we need is 2 CSV files as follows:
  1. File 1 Artist Data - one Artist per row. The more data, the better.
  1. File 2 - Repertoire Data - from 1 to 100 recordings and/or works per Artist.

File 1 - Artist Data

One Artist per row. The more data, the better.
  1. M = Mandatory 
  2. O = Optional
  3. R = Recommended
Field Name
Description
M-O-R
Artist ID
Your internal Artist ID
M
Artist Name
Full Name of First Name/Last Name
M
Artist Type
Band or Person
M
Nationality
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
O
Date Of Birth
ISO 8601
O
Other
Any other relevant information
O

File 2 - Repertoire Data

From 1 to 100 recordings and/or works per Artist.

Field Name
Description
M-O-R
Artist ID
Your internal Artist ID
M
Work / Recording ID
ISWC/BOWI or ISRC
R
Work / Recording Title
UTF-8 Characters 
M
Work / Recording Release Date
ISO 8601
O
Work / Recording Duration
ISO 8601
O
Work / Recording Pline
Record label or publisher name
O

Quansic provides to you

Upon our matching process, we will return a CSV file with the matching results:

Artist ID
ID Type
ID Value
Quansic ID
Result Type
Your internal ID
The returned ID (ISNI, IPI...)
The value of the ID
The ID to be used in our API
The type of the matching result (success, fail, duplicate...)

API call

Using the above Quansic ID, you can query our API and retrieve the full artist data set.

  1. The response is a Json object.
  2. A summary is provided below.


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