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Release 56: June 2016 - Support IU MDPI/Large collection management. Support for moving from Variations to Avalon. 

  • Features for Variations to Avalon Migration
    • Playlists
      • Adding clips of media items to playlists
      • Edit, re-order and move playlist items to other playlists
      • Create public or private playlists
  • Content ingest API
  • Access control enhancements:
    • IP based access control
    • Leases for access control (Start/end dates for user and group access on items)

  • Accessibility phase 2 
    • Support for ingesting/delivering captions in VTT and/or SRT files
  • Section labels able to be searched
  • Fedora 4 timeline (when and how)

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 October 2016 - Feature parity with R5 but on Fedora 4

  • Upgrades

    • Fedora 4, Hydra 9, Solr upgrade
    • New Models for Fedora4
    • JS media framework decisions
    • Ruby on Rails upgrade
      • Ruby support for 2.3

    Easily Edit/Import Structural Metadata

    SAAS Preparation

    • AWS experiment
    • Develop AWS infrastructure map
    • Running AWS Hosted Pilot
    • Pricing Models for SAAS

    Additional transcode engine support

    • Zencoder or amazon elastic transcode decision
    • Rework AWS Instance when Materhorn is removed
    • Better local transcode support

    Improvements to Playlists

    Documentation & Transparency

    • Server Mapping
    • Improve Manual install and upgrade instructions
    • Move JIRA to Waffle/Github
    • Fedora 4 Upgrade Path instructions
    • Documented migration path from Variations
    • Code style guide and standards
      • Set RuboCop profile as part of build

    Contributions to IIIF Framework

    Enable codeclimate against a repo



Release 7: TBD - feature list in flux

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  • Structural Metadata: (examples - migrating from Variations to Avalon; importing new items with an existing structure file that is created outside of the system)

    • Navigation by structure (jump to point on the timeline)

    • Create structure (via resource description form and batch; structure can be added at the file level or what is now called a section)

      • includes segment label

      • hierarchy

      • time offset

    • Edit structure via resource description form
  • Dependency Simplification - Create a transcoding API to support use with alternative transcoding engines 

  • Wowza integration
  • Hydra 8
  • Accessibility Phase One

    • Navigation of web page elements with screen reader and tab key

    • Using player controls with keyboard

  • Add Notes field

  • Indexing Notes field

  • Canvas LTI integration improvements
    •  Avalon provides LTI urls for direct access to item or sections when used with a Course Management System
  • oEmbed support


 

Release 5: June 13, 2016 - Support IU MDPI/Large collection management. Support for moving from Variations to Avalon. 

 

  • Features for Variations to Avalon Migration
    • Playlists
      • Adding clips of media items to playlists
      • Edit, re-order and move playlist items to other playlists
      • Create public or private playlists
  • Content ingest API
  • Access control enhancements:
    • IP based access control
    • Leases for access control (Start/end dates for user and group access on items)

  • Accessibility phase 2 
    • Support for ingesting/delivering captions in VTT and/or SRT files
  • Section labels able to be searched
  • Fedora 4 timeline (when and how)