Page Comparison

Previous Releases

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

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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

Previous releases

R1 - May 2013

• Secure delivery of video and audio to desktop browsers and iOS (iPad/iPhone) devices.
• Implementation as a Hydra application to provide easy search via the Blacklight discovery tool and integration with a Fedora repository.
• Support for both Adobe Media Server and the Red5 open source media server for audio and video streaming.
• Integration possibilities for a variety of authentication systems, along with permissions management by user- or group-based authorization.
• Manual media ingest and description and a dropbox-based batch import capability

 R2 - October 2013

• Collection Support  – Unit level and Collection level (University Archives and Faculty1Collection), to enforce access and editing management
  
• 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

  • 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.

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• Move R1 content to R2 without having to re-ingest
• User migration strategy

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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. 
  • 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
  • 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) 
• Method of importing previously encoded derivatives 
• Dropbox privacy between collections - LOW
• Player embedding for public and restricted content
• Player fixes and improvements
  • Select stream quality on iOS devices
  • 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.
  

  • Jira Legacy
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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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 R3.2 - December 2014

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R3.3 Jan/Feb 2015 

• Import descriptive metadata from ILS

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• Accessibility assessment
• Import multiple quality level derivatives per section

Release 4: September 2015

• 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)

Release 5.0.1: July 14, 2016 - Bug fix release

• Inconsistencies in Avalon’s media player on some mobile device browsers
• Captions intermittently failed to appear on the media player when enabled
• Users would occasionally encounter error screens when searching

Release 5.1: July 22, 2016 - Feature improvements release

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• Apostrophes in media objects causing a load failure 
• Various smart phone display bugs 
• Error handling for users clicking multiple times on upload

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