Release 4: Target Date June 2015
Structural Metadata: (examples - migrating from Variations to Avalon; importing new items with an existing file that is created outside of the system)
Navigation by structure (jump to point)
Designate structure (via specification file; file could be referenced in batch spreadsheet; structure per section)
including segment label
hierarchy
time offset
Means of editing previously specified structure (could be just a file edit in the interface)
Dependency Simplification/API
Pluggability of transcoding engines
- Wowza integration
Accessibility Phase One
Navigation of web page elements?
Using player controls?
Other potential new features
Notes field
Better visibility of access control status for bulk selected items
Indexing sections/structure labels
Technical considerationswork to schedule:
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- Automated functional testing
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- Fedora 4
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- Hydra
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- 9?
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- Cloud solution
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- RDF
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- PCDM
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- Packaging/
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- deployment, e.g. use of Docker
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- Support for other streaming mechanisms, e.g. MPEG-DASH
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- Scalability issues?
Unscheduled Features
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- Reporting and metrics
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- Collections based group management
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- Collections based master file handling
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- Metadata
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- Internationalization
Technical metadata?
Administrative metadata (owner, digitizer)
Provenance?
MARC Support?
PBCore/DublinCore crosswalks?
Controlled Vocabulary
-Integration with Wowza
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Vocabularies
Import from other sources
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-Internationalization
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Image content/auxiliary items (how does avalon fit with other initiatives?)
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Integration with OHMS
Previous releases
R1 - May 2013
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- 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
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- Collection Support – Unit level and Collection level (University Archives and Faculty1Collection), to enforce access and editing management
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1585 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1584 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1586 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1683 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1649 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1685 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1715 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1716
- Batch specification improvements: Allow specifications of section labels in batch (which is not in MODS) and access control
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1545 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1542
- Player change
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1543 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1583 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1623
- Basic monitoring and troubleshooting
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-942
- R1 -> R2 Migration tools
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1872 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1876
- Provide custom thumbnail images for videos
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1830
R3 - May 2014
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- File Management - Track masters and derivatives in Fedora, and support archiving workflow for masters.
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-725 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1637 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1638 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2183
- Campus and course-based access control via LTI
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2233 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2271 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2270 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2157
- Permanent URL support (Handle Server and PURL)
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2267
- Method of importing previously encoded derivatives
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2143
- Dropbox privacy between collections - LOW
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2035
- Player embedding for public and restricted content
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2265
- Player fixes and improvements
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1107 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1629 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2103 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2100
- Streamline the release process
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2198 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2108
R3.1 - July 2014
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- Automated Group Management - Support integration with external sources of group membership relevant to access permissions.
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1717 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1718 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1622 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1621
- Thumbnail generation from derivatives so master files can be immediately deleted or moved aside
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2659
- Custom permalink specification - enable reuse of pre-existing PURLs or handles
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2660
- Import previously transcoded files from the Avalon dropbox
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2661
- Improved error messages for batch ingest failures
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2757
- Improved SEO - public Avalon items need to show up better in search engines
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2755
R3.2 - December 2014
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- Hydra 7 upgrade
- Add some needed metadata fields - original physical description, language, related links, terms of use (item and batch)
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2759
- Navigate to dropbox subdirectories
- Browse Everything integration
- Browse Everything integration
- Bulk publish/unpublish
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2692
- Bulk delete
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2762
- Bulk collection re-assign
- Bulk actions for access control
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2763
R3.3 Jan/Feb 2015
- Import descriptive metadata from ILS
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1641
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1639 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1640
- Accessibility assessment
- Import multiple quality level derivatives per section
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