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Overview

Common Metadata Ratings are captured in both HTML and XML format. This page contains documentation for the XML.

Worldwide rating data can be found on the Ratings Page.

Current Version

• Version 1.2 Specification
  • Common Metadata Content Rating Structure, TR-META-RS, v1.2, December 28, 2021 (PDF)
  • Version showing changes (PDF)
• Version 1.2 Schema
  • Schema Location: http://www.movielabs.com/schema/mdcr/v1.1/mdcr-v1.1.xsd
  • Schema Documentation

Previously Released Versions

When newer versions are released, this section will contain previously released versions.

Version 1.1 Specification (April 9, 2014)

• Version 1.1 Specification
  • Common Metadata Content Rating Structure, TR-META-RS, v1.1, April 9, 2014 (PDF)
  • Version showing changes (PDF)
• Version 1.1 Schema
  • Schema Location: http://www.movielabs.com/schema/mdcr/v1.1/mdcr-v1.1.xsd
  • Schema Documentation

Version 1.0 Specification (January 3, 2014)

• Version 1.0 Specification
  • Common Metadata Content Rating Structure, TR-META-RS, v1,0, January 3, 2014 (PDF)
• Version 1.0 Schema
  • Schema Location:http://www.movielabs.com/schema/mdcr/v1.0/mdcr-v1.0.xsd
  • Schema Documentation

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