ADE - Agreements Data Exchange

The ADE working group has following main tasks:

• Putting together the Business Rules for the group
• Maintaining the CAF format
• Sharing Requirements and Use Cases

The next meeting will take place on 6 December 2024 via Teams.

The group is chaired by Joanna Bartkowska (Warner Chappell) and Christopher McKenzie (SOCAN).

The purpose of the Common Agreements Format (CAF) format is to provide Publishers, Societies and others with a standard format for the communication of data relating to agreements and specifically Publisher and writer collection shares and the works subject to the agreements. The CAF employs data standards that have been developed for the Common Information System (CIS) project of CISAC. CAF is a data format which conveys the flow of rights between one party & another and includes term, territory, right type & usage.

Latest developments: Official CAF specifications can be found here.

Implementation status: If you are registered with the Society Publisher Forum, please update your implementation status here.

For more information, please contact caf@societypublisherforum.net.