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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 "container" 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

Sample EAD: https://gist.github.com/quoideneuf/80aed673f818ba6a5ffa

• make these controlled terms for container. Let's start with video carriers for now.

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