---
id: "eidr"
kind: "datatype"
status: "stable"
is_pii: false
categories: ["identifiers", "media"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 100
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/eidr"
---

# Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) content ID (`eidr`)

Identifier of a film, television or radio work in the Entertainment Identifier Registry, which studios, broadcasters and distributors use to refer to the same title, edit or encoding. An EIDR content ID is a DOI with the prefix 10.5240 and a suffix of five groups of four hexadecimal digits and a check character (ISO 7064 mod 37,36). EIDR party IDs (prefix 10.5237) and video service IDs (prefix 10.5239) are other identifiers of the same registry.

- Parent datatype: `doi`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Universal unique identifiers (identifiers), Media and entertainment (media)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^10\.5240/(?:[0-9A-F]{4}-){5}[0-9A-Z]$
```

## Examples

- `10.5240/58DD-06EB-3EED-A705-EE28-7` — The Simpsons
- `10.5240/E058-3983-F191-9805-DD81-Q` — Never Say Never Again
- `10.5240/8069-0CF7-DB0F-3696-D2D4-X` — Toy Story
- `10.1000/182` (invalid example) — DOI outside the EIDR prefix 10.5240
- `10.5237/C844-63E8` (invalid example) — EIDR party ID

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P2704`

## Metacrafter rules

2 rules: 1 match the field name, 1 match values.

- `eidrfield` (field, `common/objects.yaml`)
- `eidrvalue` (data, `common/objects.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор контента EIDR: Идентификатор фильма, телевизионной или радиопрограммы в реестре EIDR. Это DOI с префиксом 10.5240.

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDR>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2704>
- doc: <https://www.eidr.org/>
- schema.org: <https://schema.org/editEIDR>
- schema.org: <https://schema.org/titleEIDR>

## Quality

Score 100/100.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/eidr.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/identifiers/eidr.yaml>