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Welcome to the avspace wiki!

AVSpace is a plug-in for ArchivesSpace that adds support for describing specific characteristics of archival audiovisual materials.

The first thing we wanted to address is more specific types for the container component and extent types. For a container, the only existing AV option is "reel", but AV items can take many other forms, as you can see by the reviewing the RDA Carrier list: http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/rdacarrier.html. For the AMIA Hack Day 2014 plug-in prototype, we selected just the subset of video carriers to be available via the plug-in.

Next we wanted to enable the encoding of even specific AV formats at the instance level.

Misc. notes during development: Sample EAD: https://gist.github.com/quoideneuf/80aed673f818ba6a5ffa

We want archival description of an AV collection or instance to be represented in the actual JSON object from which Aspace creates EAD!

JSON models for objects in ArchivesSpace: https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/tree/master/common/schemas