US Letters of Direction Choreography

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• 1 Introduction
• 2 Scope
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Organisation of the Document
• 3 Normative References
• 4 Terms and Abbreviations
  • 4.1 Terms and Definitions
  • 4.2 Abbreviations
• 5 US Letters of Direction Choreography
  • 5.1 Direct Communication
    • 5.1.1 Core Choreography
    • 5.1.2 Extended Choreography
  • 5.2 Communication via a Hub
  • 5.3 Disputing Letters of Direction
  • 5.4 Scope of Message
  • 5.5 Cover Letter for Letter of Direction cycle (informative)
  • 5.6 Communicating Resource and Release Information to Licensees
    • 5.6.1 Full Catalogue Transfers
    • 5.6.2 Partial Catalogue Transfers
    • 5.6.3 Ingestion of a LoDMessage information
  • 5.7 Processes when receiving a message regarding a catalogue transfer (informative)
  • 5.8 SFTP Choreography
    • 5.8.1 Introduction
    • 5.8.2 Folder Naming Convention
    • 5.8.3 XML File Naming Convention
    • 5.8.4 Supporting File Naming Convention
    • 5.8.5 Manifest
    • 5.8.6 Acknowledgement
    • 5.8.7 Size of Batch
    • 5.8.8 Hybrid Batches
  • 5.9 Web Service Choreography
    • 5.9.1 Introduction
    • 5.9.2 Asymmetric Choreography
    • 5.9.3 Symmetric Direct Choreography
    • 5.9.4 Choreography via a Hub
    • 5.9.5 URLs
    • 5.9.6 Personalising the Feed
    • 5.9.7 Web Server Set-up and Authentication
    • 5.9.8 Identifying Web Service Callers Without Authentication
    • 5.9.9 Web Service Commands
• 6 Syntax & Semantics of Messages
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 General Conformance Rules
    • 6.2.1 Schema Validation
    • 6.2.2 Namespace
    • 6.2.3 Allowed Value Lists
    • 6.2.4 Contractually Mandatory
    • 6.2.5 Character Coding
  • 6.3 Definition of Messages
  • 6.4 Allowed Value Sets

Other resources

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• Tabular representation of the messages (XLSX)

• XML schema definition (ZIP)

• Sample files