Release 4: Target Date June 2015
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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
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Dependency Simplification - Create a transcoding API to support use with alternative transcoding engines
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Accessibility Phase One
Navigation of web page elements with screen reader and tab key
Using player controls with keyboard
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Add Notes field
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Indexing Notes field
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- Avalon provides LTI urls for direct access to item or sections when used with a Course Management System
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Release 5: Dec 2015
Implement technical environment for a pilot hosted Avalon service offering
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)
Remaining accessibility work
Captioning
APIs for player interaction, content ingest, metadata ingest, updating of existing content and metadata, and management of large collections of content
- Other possible features
Better visibility of access control status for bulk selected items
Release 6: June 2016
Bookmarking,Clip Making, and Playlists feature subset as determined by user research
Annotation
Spotlight Integration Support
Synchronized Transcripts
Release 7: Dec 2016
Publishing Out to External Media Sites
Additional Embedding Functionality
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming
Access control enhancements: IP restrictions, start/end dates, custom URLs with password or access-count features.
Technical work to schedule:
- Automated functional testing
- Fedora 4
- Hydra 9
- Cloud solution
- RDF
- PCDM
- Packaging/deployment, e.g. use of Docker
- Support for other streaming mechanisms, e.g. MPEG-DASH
- Scalability issues that may arise
Unscheduled Features
- Facebook integration
- Reporting and metrics
- Collections based group management
- Collections based master file handling
- Metadata
- Internationalization
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
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
- 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
- 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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Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2759
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Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2692
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Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2762
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Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2763
R3.3 Jan/Feb 2015
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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
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Avalon 7.8 (Summer 2024)
Features and Changes
- Search within transcripts on the item page
- Improved searching in the application—see which specific fields in the record are matched by search
Avalon 8.0
- Fedora 6 support with ActiveFedora
- Improved internationalization options
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For detailed information on current and previous versions of Avalon, please see the Releases page on Github. |