What can you do with TAMIS
Each case below is a concrete exchange between organisations: what goes wrong today, how it works, and what it changes. Some are running with pilot partners, others are still a track we have discussed, and the status is written on each one.
What you can reach through the data space
The first thing you find in a data space (opens in a new tab) Data space A decentralised infrastructure enabling trustworthy data exchanges based on commonly agreed rules. is somewhere to look for what other participants (opens in a new tab) Participant An organisation admitted to the data space, identified under its rules and able to exchange within it. offer, and somewhere to describe what you offer yourself. It is one mechanism used in both directions, and a participant is usually on both sides of it.
From inside the data space, you can search the federated catalogue (opens in a new tab) Federated catalogue The mechanism that makes the offerings of every participant discoverable together, without centralising any data. for what other participants have published. Some offerings give access to data, such as the metadata a participant holds about its works. Others give access to a service, such as looking up an identifier. Each offering states what it covers and the terms attached to it, so you can tell on what conditions you could get access before contacting anyone.
Publishing works the same way, and it counts for as much. You describe an offering of your own in your local catalogue (opens in a new tab) Local catalogue The list of offerings a participant publishes from its own connector, describing the data and services it exposes. : what it covers, which of your works, records (opens in a new tab) Record The whole set of metadata held about one audiovisual work, kept as a single living object instead of scattered across spreadsheets and systems. or files it concerns, and the rules that come with it. Only the description becomes findable by the others, and what you hold stays where it is. Nothing you have not described is exposed, so publishing is decided one offering at a time.
An offering is a description, not a delivery. Finding one is not the same as having access to it: access is agreed afterwards, bilaterally, with the participant who published it. It is also why a set of records (opens in a new tab) Record The whole set of metadata held about one audiovisual work, kept as a single living object instead of scattered across spreadsheets and systems. and a service are published the same way and read the same way, neither being a special case of the other.
None of this happens on this website. It happens inside the data space, between participants, each of them running its own connector.
This is the plumbing, and the use cases on this page are the particular business needs it makes possible.
Already developped
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Collaboration in production chain
Producer space
A record created once, enriched automatically, and shared on the producer terms with each counterpart, who accepts it without re-keying.
- 01 Create the record once
- 02 Enrich automatically
- 03 Share selectively
In trialProduction company · Post-production and delivery partners · Broadcaster or distributor · Identifier registry
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Collaboration in production chain
Broadcast data enrichment and exchange
Turning broadcast logs that identify works inconsistently into data a collective management organisation can act on.
- 01 Import the broadcast data
- 02 Publish to the data space
- 03 Match the identifiers
In trialHolder of the broadcast data · Identifier registry · Collective management organisation
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Collaboration in production chain
Share and monetization of productions on the secondary market
Finding the assets that already exist around a work, instead of paying to produce them a second time.
- 01 Describe what exists
- 02 Publish an offering
- 03 Search across participants
In trialRights holders and broadcasters · Access and localisation service providers · Technical partner
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Also on the horizon
Tracks we have discussed and nobody has built yet. They carry the status they deserve: concept. If one of them is what you need, say so, and it stops being a concept.
- Private production circle Concept A private, secure exchange circle created by a producer for the length of a production, where metadata moves only between the people working on it.
- Localisation ordering Concept Order a localisation service from inside the data space, with the metadata of the work already attached to the order.
- Contract data extraction Concept Pull structured data out of production and distribution contracts to feed the record of the work.
- Cross-platform distribution and audience data Concept Package a work to the format of each platform, and bring audience data back to the rights holders.
- Metadata validation and certification Concept A service that validates and certifies the metadata of a work before it enters the chain.
Bring your own use case
The use cases running today are not the boundary of what the data space can do. If the exchange you need is not among them, it is not missing: it is unproposed.
Value for every seat at the table
The TAMIS data space makes audiovisual metadata findable across the chain, wherever it is held. What that means concretely depends on where you sit. Here is the value for each role.
Producers
Describe once, deliver clean everywhere.
- Register a work once and give it a persistent, resolvable identity.
- Auto-extraction and ISAN lookup pre-fill the record: no blank forms.
- Deliver validated metadata to every broadcaster without re-keying.
- Turn a dormant collection into discoverable, well-described assets.
- Rights get paid to the right people, and sooner: a work correctly identified in broadcast data is a work whose rights holders can be found.
Relevant use cases
Broadcasters
Receive metadata you can accept as-is.
- Get clean, validated records in a format your systems accept directly.
- Cut manual re-entry and the errors that come with each hand-off.
- See field-level provenance: who wrote each field, and when.
- Know which version you are looking at, and where the value that counts is held.
- Accept, refuse or correct the fields you receive, and have that validation travel back up the chain.
Relevant use cases
Registries & CMOs
Authoritative identity, connected.
- Act as a trusted source that enriches records across the data space.
- Link works to persistent identifiers (ISAN and beyond).
- Strengthen rights identification with shared, provenance-aware data.
- Reduce reconciliation work between databases.
Relevant use cases
Service & solution providers
Any service around the data, or the content, of audiovisual works.
- Metadata processing, AI-based extraction, localisation, packaging, discovery, infrastructure: the data space is built to reach all of it.
- Plug into one interoperable layer instead of one integration per client.
- Reach participants who were not going to look for you otherwise.
- Serve the ecosystem without becoming a lock-in platform.