DDEX Working Groups
Charter and Full Members of DDEX provide as many representatives as they wish to serve on the technical Working Groups. All decisions are made by consensus. Associate Members may receive some of the outputs from Working Groups.
The following DDEX Working Groups are currently working on the next developments in digital supply chain standards.
| Working Groups | Mandate |
|---|---|
| Message Maintenance Working Group | Maintain existing message suite standards |
| Business and Release Profile Working Group | Develop and maintain subsets of the message suite standards for specific types of business transactions and release types |
| Handbook Working Group | Develop and maintain supporting documentation aimed at aiding implementations |
| Automated Message Exchange Protocol Working Group | Maintain and update the message exchange protocol standards and choreography standards associated with the message suite standards |
| Release Identification Working Group | Work with IFPI on issues related to the Global Release Identifier Standard (GRID) |
| Software Working Group | Maintain the open source software repository |
| Conformance Working Group | Develop a process to determine conformance of DDEX implementations |
| Metadata Best Practice Working Group | Develop best practices for the representation of metadata for rights management and search/discovery purposes |
| Classical Working Group | Develop a method to identify and adequately describe classical releases |