What are the main ISAN benefits ?
ISAN main benefits are: • Unique ID: The purpose of each ISAN is to act as a unique international identifier of each audiovisual work (AV work) linked to its descriptive information (metadata), hosted in a central repository (managed by ISAN-IA) • Work Identifier: Each AV work (including all its components and versions) has one unique ISAN. Each ISAN identifies only one AV work. ISAN is a permanent identifier for an AV work and is never reused or changed. • Version Identifier: Each version of an AV work can have a different unique ISAN. That ISAN cannot be used to identify any other version of that or any other work. (The root and episode segments of the ISAN will be the same for all versions of that work, only the version segment changes.) • Representative of the Industry: ISAN has been defined by the audiovisual industry. • Highly Available: ISAN and its related descriptive information are accessible through the Internet at all times by users (both registrants and readers). • Highly
