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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:  Feb 2016 Mar/Apr 2016 - Support IU MDPI/Large collection management. Support for moving from Variations to Avalon. 

  • Streaming and player issues
    • Update mediaelement.js
    • ?? Support HLS Flash and retire RTMP support 

  • APIs for management of large collections of content

    • Content ingest API - implications for batch (bags?) should include metadata, files, structure (whatever Avalon takes) 
  • Access control enhancements:
    • IP based access control
    , investigate
    • ?? Investigate need for LDAP based groups for assigning collection staff roles

    • ?? start/end dates, custom URLs with password or access-count features.

  • ?? Player API may be needed for structural metadata work
  • ?? Structural Metadata stage 2 TBD
    • Interactive editor
    • Get structure from sources (media files via wav markers); internet source (freedb); physical media - like tracks on cd)
  • Accessibility phase 2 
    • Captioning definition and plan. Determine if/what we can do in R5? (Point of ingest caption)Support for ingesting/delivering captions in VTT and/or SRT files
  • Other possible features
  • ?? Better visibility of access control status for bulk selected items
  • Fed4 timeline (when and how)Investigate needed technical environment for a pilot hosted Avalon service offering

 

Release 6: June Oct 2016

 

  • Bookmarking, Clip Making, and Playlists feature subset as determined by user research

  • Annotation

  • Spotlight Integration Support

  • Synchronized Transcripts

  • Investigate needed technical environment for a pilot hosted Avalon service offering

Release 7: Dec 2016Apr 2017

  • Publishing Out to External Media Sites

  • Additional Embedding Functionality

  • Dynamic Adaptive StreamingAccess control enhancements: IP restrictions, start/end dates, custom URLs with password or access-count features.

Technical work to schedule:

  • Improve unit testing
  • Fedora 4
  • Hydra 9 have to do with Fed4
  • Supporting another transcoding engine (Amazon Elastic Transcoder/Active Job) 
  • Cloud solution
  • RDF
  • PCDM
  • Packaging/deployment, e.g. use of Docker. Improving installation experience. 
  • Scalability issues that may arise 
  • Automated functional testing

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