ISWC

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The International Standard Musical Work Code (ISWC) is an ISO standard similar to ISBNs for identifying musical works / compositions.

According to the Wikipedia article about ISWC, to register an ISWC, the following minimal metadata must be supplied:

MusicBrainz stores ISWCs for works (since the May 2011 server release).

See also
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/ISWC
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