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
- 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
- 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)