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

Upgrades

• Fedora 4, Hydra 9, Solr upgrade
• New Models for Fedora4
• JS media framework decisions
• Ruby on Rails upgrade
  • Ruby support for 2.3

Easily Edit/Import Structural Metadata

SAAS Preparation

• AWS experiment
• Develop AWS infrastructure map
• Running AWS Hosted Pilot
• Pricing Models for SAAS

Additional transcode engine support

• Zencoder or amazon elastic transcode decision
• Rework AWS Instance when Materhorn is removed
• Better local transcode support

Improvements to Playlists

Documentation & Transparency

• Server Mapping
• Improve Manual install and upgrade instructions
• Move JIRA to Waffle/Github
• Fedora 4 Upgrade Path instructions
• Documented migration path from Variations
• Code style guide and standards
  • Set RuboCop profile as part of build

Contributions to IIIF Framework

Enable codeclimate against a repo

Release 7: TBD - Focus on Gemification

Exhibits Via Spotlight

• • Spotlight integration and implementation
  • How-to Documentation

 Strategy for QA

• • Staffing and workflow
  • Integrated Automated Test environments

 Remove RTMP Support

• • Drop Flash
  • Investigate HLS on all platforms and its implications
  • Create one player view in Avalon
  • Re-implement media element customization against the main branch
  • Adjust streaming security model
  • Move to standard mediaelement

 Better internal permissions setup

 Gemification/Break interdependencies

• • Streaming gem for another repo app
  • Bulk metadata/editing gem

 Improve packaging

• • Create ansible solution and docker containers (internal only)
  • Better developer install methods
  • Better OVA

 Structural Metadata Improvements

• • granular seeking
  • move a master file to a different item
  • merge/split items

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
  

  • Jira Legacy
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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

  • Jira Legacy
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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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  • Jira Legacy
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• Permanent URL support (Handle Server and PURL) 

  • Jira Legacy
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• Method of importing previously encoded derivatives 

  • Jira Legacy
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• Dropbox privacy between collections - LOW

  • Jira Legacy
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• Player embedding for public and restricted content

  • Jira Legacy
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• Player fixes and improvements

  • Jira Legacy
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  • Jira Legacy
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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

  • Jira Legacy
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• Custom permalink specification - enable reuse of pre-existing PURLs or handles

  • Jira Legacy
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• Import previously transcoded files from the Avalon dropbox

  • Jira Legacy
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• Improved error messages for batch ingest failures

  • Jira Legacy
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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

  • Jira Legacy
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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. 

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• Playlists
  • Adding clips of media items to playlists
  • Edit, re-order and move playlist items to other playlists
  • Create public or private playlists

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• IP based access control

• Leases for access control (Start/end dates for user and group access on items)

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• Support for ingesting/delivering captions in VTT and/or SRT files

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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