What is ISAN-IA?
ISAN International Agency or ISAN-IA (pronounced E-SAN-ya) is responsible for promoting ISAN worldwide, for appointing Registration Agencies, and for running and managing the ISAN system where ISANs as well as related metadata are stored in a centralized repository. ISAN-IA collects metadata via authorized ISAN Registration Agencies who accept ISAN applications from registrants (producers, publishers, etc…) with specific descriptive information (metadata) about their audiovisual works or related versions such as; The ISAN system and ISAN central repository are accessible online to registered users. ISAN-IA maintain a 24/7 live XML based web service for code and metadata lookups in collaboration with their Registration Agencies worldwide. The ISAN identification and metadata system supports over 90 different content specific tags, and more than 50 worldwide ratings systems in over 30 languages. Large catalog of audiovisual content can be registered via a ‘massive load’ process, using XM