---
id: "musicbrainz_work_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["media"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/musicbrainz_work_id"
---

# MusicBrainz work ID (`musicbrainz_work_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

MBID of a work in MusicBrainz: a song, composition or other piece of music apart from its recordings, as in musicbrainz.org/work/<id>. A work can also have an ISWC (iswc).

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

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$
```

## Examples

- `f617e5ae-572c-46a9-9902-1d53774c01aa` — Turandot
- `0c80db24-389e-3620-8e0b-84dc2b7c009a` — Yesterday
- `B10BBBFC-CF9E-42E0-BE17-E2C3E1D2600D` (invalid example) — Upper case; MusicBrainz writes MBIDs in lower case

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P435`

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор произведения в MusicBrainz

## Sources

- doc: <https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Work>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P435>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

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