International Standard Musical Work Code (ISWC)

ID iswc

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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ISO 15707 identifier of a musical work as a composition, apart from its recordings (which have ISRC codes) and editions. It is the letter T, a nine-digit work number and a check digit, usually printed as T-123.456.789-C; the dots and hyphens are optional. Collecting societies issue the numbers in sequence under CISAC, the registration authority, and the number says nothing about the work. The check digit is a weighted sum of the digits modulo 10, which the registry does not verify.

Categories: Objects identifiers, Publishing and print, Media and entertainment
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
AutoType benchmark: iswc
Schema.org: iswcCode
Wikidata: P1827
Quality: 100/100
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: Auto-Type

Regular expression

^T-?\d{3}\.?\d{3}\.?\d{3}-?\d$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
T-034.524.680-1	Example from the Wikipedia article
T-000.000.001-0	The first ISWC
T0000000010	The first ISWC in compact form, as Wikidata stores it
T-034.524.680 invalid	No check digit

Translations

Language	Name	Description
Russian	Международный стандартный код музыкального произведения (ISWC)	Идентификатор музыкального произведения по ISO 15707: буква T, девять цифр и контрольная цифра.

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Musical_Work_Code
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1827
doc: https://www.iswc.org/
other: https://github.com/congy/AutoType/blob/master/data_release/iswc.txt

Use this record

Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/iswc
JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
Improve it: edit data/datatypes/any/objectids/iswc.yaml on GitHub