Mapping and data exchange formats

The underlying APIs used in the AVefi project use JSON as a data exchange format. We aim to assist our partners in mapping their data to the AVefi metadata schema and convert them from different source formats. You can find some sample datasets within the schema repository.

For demonstration purposes and better readability, here is an example in YAML, is it might be provided by a film archive in order to register PIDs for a film work, a particular manifestation and the local item:

---
category: avefi:MovingImageRecordCollection
has_record:
- category: avefi:WorkVariant
  type: Monographic
  id: work_identifier
  has_primary_title:
    type: PreferredTitle
    has_name: Menschen am Sonntag – Das Dokument der Gegenwart
  has_event:
  - type: ProductionEvent
    has_date: 1929/1930
    located_in:
    - has_name: Germany (German Reich)
      same_as:
      - category: avefi:GNDResource
        id: 2008993-4
    has_activity:
    - type: CastMember
      has_agent:
      - type: Person
        has_name: Borchert, Brigitte
        same_as:
        - category: avefi:GNDResource
          id: '173787681'
      - type: Person
        has_name: Splettstößer, Erwin
        same_as:
        - category: avefi:GNDResource
          id: '1061393046'
      - type: Person
        has_name: Waltershausen, Wolfgang von
        same_as:
        - category: avefi:GNDResource
          id: '173857868'
    - type: Writer
      has_agent:
      - type: Person
        has_name: Wilder, Billy
        same_as:
        - category: avefi:GNDResource
          id: '118632795'
    - type: Director
      has_agent:
      - type: Person
        has_name: Siodmak, Robert
        same_as:
        - category: avefi:GNDResource
          id: 11861472X
      - type: Person
        has_name: Ulmer, Edgar G.
        same_as:
        - category: avefi:GNDResource
          id: '124471196'
      - type: Person
        has_name: Gliese, Rochus
        same_as:
        - category: avefi:GNDResource
          id: '116663308'
    - type: Cinematographer
      has_agent:
      - type: Person
        has_name: Schüfftan, Eugen
        same_as:
        - category: avefi:GNDResource
          id: 12495748X
    - type: FilmEditor
      has_agent:
      - type: Person
        has_name: Siodmak, Robert
        same_as:
        - category: avefi:GNDResource
          id: 11861472X
    - type: Composer
      has_agent:
      - type: Person
        has_name: Stenzel, Otto
  has_genre:
  - has_name: Fiction
  same_as:
  - category: avefi:FilmportalResource
    id: f570e1abdad841dc8d5b25b0f7737065
  described_by:
    has_issuer_id: DE-MUS-407010
    has_issuer_name: Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen
    last_modified: '2024-05-13T15:12:41Z'
- category: avefi:Manifestation
  type: PreservationRestoration
  id: manifestation_identifier
  has_primary_title:
    type: TitleProper
    has_name: Menschen am Sonntag
  has_event:
  - type: ProductionEvent
    has_date: 2013/2014
  - type: ReleaseEvent
    has_date: 2014
  in_language:
  - usage: Intertitles
    code: deu
  - usage: Subtitles
    code: eng
  - usage: Subtitles
    code: fra
  has_colour_type: BlackAndWhite
  has_sound_type: Sound
  is_manifestation_of:
  - category: avefi:LocalResource
    id: work_identifier
  has_item:
  - category: avefi:LocalResource
    id: item_identifier1
- category: avefi:Item
  element_type: DCP
  id: item_identifier1
  has_primary_title:
    type: TitleProper
    has_name: Menschen am Sonntag
  has_access_status: Distribution
  has_extent:
    has_unit: GigaByte
    has_value: 113
  has_format:
  - category: avefi:DigitalFile
    type: MXF
  is_item_of:
    category: avefi:LocalResource
    id: manifestation_identifier