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:
- File 1 Artist Data - one Artist per row. The more data, the better.
- 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.
- M = Mandatory
- O = Optional
- 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.
- The response is a Json object.
- A summary is provided below.
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