Release 4: September 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: Late Apr / Early May 2016 - Support IU MDPI/Large collection management. Support for moving from Variations to Avalon. 

• Streaming and player issues
  • Update mediaelement.js
• Content ingest API
• Access control enhancements:
  • IP based access control
  • LDAP based groups for assigning collection staff roles

  • Start/end dates

• Accessibility phase 2 
  • Support for ingesting/delivering captions in VTT and/or SRT files
• Other possible features
  • Better visibility of access control status for bulk selected items
• Fedora 4 timeline (when and how)

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Release 7: TBD - feature list in flux

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• Interactive editor MVP
• Get structure from sources (media files via wav markers); internet source (freedb); physical media - like tracks on cd)

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

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Player API to support external annotation tools, etc.

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Spotlight Integration Support

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Synchronized Transcripts

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• custom URLs with password or access-count features.

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Release 8: TBD - feature list in flux

• PCDM support

• Publishing Out to External Media Sites

• Additional Embedding Functionality

• Dynamic Adaptive Streaming

Technical work to schedule:

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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
  

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• 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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• R1 -> R2 Migration tools

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• Provide custom thumbnail images for videos

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 R3 - May 2014

• File Management - Track masters and derivatives in Fedora, and support archiving workflow for masters. 
  

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• Campus and course-based access control via LTI

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• Permanent URL support (Handle Server and PURL) 

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• Method of importing previously encoded derivatives 

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• Dropbox privacy between collections - LOW

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• Player embedding for public and restricted content

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• Player fixes and improvements

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• Streamline the release process

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 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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 R3.2 - December 2014

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R3.3 Jan/Feb 2015 

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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