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Release 6: October 2016 - Feature parity with R5 but on Fedora 4

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Release 7: TBD - Focus on Gemification 

Exhibits Via Spotlight 

    • Spotlight integration and implementation
    • How-to Documentation

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  • PCDM support

  • Publishing Out to External Media Sites

  • Additional Embedding Functionality

  • Dynamic Adaptive Streaming

 

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Technical work to schedule:

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  • Technical metadata

  • Administrative metadata (owner, digitizer)

  • Provenance metadata

  • PBCore/DublinCore crosswalks

  • Controlled Vocabularies

  • Import media from other sources

  • Image content/auxiliary items (how does Avalon fit with other initiatives?)

  • Integration with OHMS

 

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Previous releases

R1 - May 2013

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  • Collection Support  – Unit level and Collection level (University Archives and Faculty1Collection), to enforce access and editing management
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    • Create a unit
      • Naming and Manager assignment
      • Ability to change managers 
      • Unit deletion and renaming the unit
    • Unit managers can create and edit collections
      • Editing includes the title, collection managers, default access control settings for the collection, and the owning unit for the collection
      • Editing a collection does not include/refer to creating and deleting items in that collection.
    • Unit managers can remove items from a collection he or she manages and only from those collections.
    • Create and manage collections with appropriate roles
    • Delete a collection, batch reassign the items to another collection.
    • Manage list of units for administrators 
      • simple text file update
      • not requiring a server restart ideally
    • Browse items or restrict search results by unit
      • Units as a facet 
      • Unit name as a required drop-down selection field for when a collection is created 
      • Unit displayed in the item metadata on the item detail page.
  • Batch specification improvements:  Allow specifications of section labels in batch (which is not in MODS) and access control
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    • Player change
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    • Basic monitoring and troubleshooting
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        Specify section labels for items with multi-part sections via batch submission process

      • Batch process allows specification for access control options
    • Player change: Mediaelement.js
      • Player options are considered and tested. 
        • Player licensing complies with the Avalon project.  
        • Demo the player on Red5/Lancelot and AMS. 
      • Mediaelement.js player on Red5- and AMS-based test servers
      • Mediaelement bug fixes
    • Basic monitoring and troubleshooting
    • R1 -> R2 Migration tools
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      • Move R1 content to R2 without having to re-ingest
      • User migration strategy
    • Provide custom thumbnail images for videos
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      • Extraction of a thumbnail from a custom time offset per video

     R3 - May 2014

    •  File Management - Track masters and derivatives in Fedora, and support archiving workflow for masters. 
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        • Configured to either leave master file in place, delete after processing or move it elsewhere
          • Mechanism in place for configuring the file transfer and cleanup on the avalon servers.
          • The move or delete only happens at time of publish rather than post process time 
        • Lookups in Fedora 
          • Mezzanine files
          • Derivative files
        • Track Master files for items with "pre-encoded derivative"
          • designate the permanent location of the master file at point of upload
          • track location of master file
      • Campus and course-based access control via LTI
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        • Authenticated link for LMS systems 
          • Avalon-LTI-enabled link in LMS 
          • Display a list of current courses reserve items. 
          • Visible way to return to this list of items
        • Grant specific class access to an item
          • Item-level access control can be added for external group ID via LTI
        • View reserve items in class
          • class "limit to" facet lists any classes associated with items. 
          • No class facet will show up fore non-users
      • Permanent URL support (Handle Server and PURL) 
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      • Player embedding for public and restricted content
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      • Player fixes and improvements
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        • MediaElement.js player playback position
        • better skin for MediaElement.js player that also works on smaller mobile devices
      • Streamline the release process

       R3.1 - July 2014

      • Automated Group Management - Support integration with external sources of group membership relevant to access permissions.
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      • Thumbnail generation from derivatives so master files can be immediately deleted or moved aside
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      • Custom permalink specification - enable reuse of pre-existing PURLs or handles
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      • Import previously transcoded files from the Avalon dropbox
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      • Improved error messages for batch ingest failures
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      • Improved SEO - public Avalon items need to show up better in search engines
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