About the GN IDS Web Application
The Gracenote ID Distribution System (GN IDS) is a platform to help you manage and optimize the distribution of program metadata using Gracenote IDs. This platform is available as a web application, described in this guide, and as an API. With GN IDS, you can submit movies, shows, and related content along with metadata and imagery to Gracenote. Once submitted, you can request that Gracenote review and publish your content to Gracenote-licensed datasets.
GN IDS makes distributing content easier on a global scale. Using GN IDS, you can create programs, metadata, and images that are associated with Gracenote IDs and publish them to Gracenote data licensees. This enables streamlined distribution across the top MVPDs, OTT platforms, CE devices, and digital services that rely on Gracenote's video metadata and IDs. Gracenote IDs are the most widely used identifiers across the video entertainment industry globally. Gracenote Certified Video data currently covers 85+ countries.
Concepts
The following concepts are used throughout this document.
Catalog: A container to organize programs and selectively entitle them for delivery (distribution) to Gracenote data licensees.
Certified data: Standard program information curated by the Gracenote editorial team.
Movie: A program of a theatrical movie release.
Presentation: One or many representations of a single program version that require variations in metadata, typically for end-user consumption. Examples include localizing metadata for different languages and target markets or special marketing promotions.
Program: A movie or show.
Program Summaries: A paginated collection of summaries for programs in a source's catalog.
Root: High-level, conceptual representation of a video program. A root can have one or many associated versions.
Series: A type of show that has one or more seasons and episodes.
Show: A TV program, sports event, or similar program that is not a movie.
Source data: Program information you provide through GN IDS to supplement Gracenote data. For example, additional information about a program not covered by Gracenote-certified data. Some examples are more extensive descriptions, additional images, content variants of the same program, and derivative content that Gracenote supports in certified data. Supported programs include movies, shows/series, and episodes.
Version: Content variants that cause distinct changes in video programs or episode structure. For Movies, these include both technical changes (for example, 3D, IMAX) or creative changes (for example, extra scenes, dubbed audio). For Shows and Series, versions typically result from similar changes to the programs or to a Series structure, such as different season and episode configurations (sometimes called repackaging).
Data Model
The following diagrams show the basic GN IDS data model and relationships.
Movie 
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