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Introduction
The Media and Virtual Record Collections (MaVReC) application is a virtual collections service designed to integrate existing, cognate (but differently structured) research collections. This aims to be a responsive, sustainable, user-friendly application which facilitates the ingestion, search and retrieval of screen media research.
Screen media research is uniquely characterized by a wide range of objects and outputs, such as:
* datasets, publications (print and online)
* audio-visual media (photography, film, video and sound, oral histories/interviews, creative works)
* hypermedia.
Cataloguing and archiving each of these research outputs entails different data standards and management protocols and has resulted in disaggregation of research knowledge in the sector. By creating opportunities to interrogate assets and metadata from different collection frameworks, MaVReC aims to bridge the divide between the practice based sc