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For information on current and previous versions of Avalon, please see the Releases page on Github.
Upcoming 6.x Releases
The current release of Avalon 6 is: Avalon 6.4.3
- Enhanced structural metadata editing—edit structure for a section visually (core)
- Import of structure within media files (such as WAV cue points) upon ingest (depending on amount of effort, core or IU)
- Performance improvements for objects and playlists with large numbers of items (investigate to decide whether core or IU)
- IIIF Manifest generation from media objects (IU)
Release 7
Our goal with Avalon 7.0 is to offer a full-featured media streaming application based on the modern Samvera stack. To this end, Avalon 7 will be built using Hyrax as a base, offering developers an environment they know and understand, and offering administrators the flexibility to run stand-alone streaming solutions or integrate scalable streaming into existing Hyrax-based applications. As we work toward full-feature parity with Avalon 6, we will continue development and support. Each dot release milestone is estimated to be an 8-week work cycle.
Github Milestone
IIIF gem used in Hyrax updated to generate IIIF Presentation API 3.0 manifests (possible collaboration with community)
- Order of masterfiles is necessary metadata
- Order of multi-valued pieces of metadata will wait until later
- Player c
- Time can be navigated via structural metadata
- Port Structural metadata (structure within) as current XML
- Dynamically generated IIIF compliant manifest generated from Media Work type
- We intend for the manifest to be a central point of interoperability
- The manifest will be based on the current IIIF-AV 3.0 standard
- Manifests will be generated based on technical and descriptive metadata
- Manifests should ideally use the same endpoints as Hyku (possibly the same generation tool)
- The manifest contains the structural information, The display should exercise the manifest.
- Structural metadata will be stored in XML and crosswalked to the manifest
- Metadata experts talk through what metadata (descriptive or any other kind) to include. There is already an issue for the recommended descriptive metadata. Need to take a deeper look for technical metadata. (https://gist.github.com/jlhardes/1e3adada7410591f46b170e65dce20af
- Investigate Matterhorn alternatives
- Matterhorn gives us the nice interface for monitoring
- Hyrax may suggest a monitoring interface for job queues
- Exploring how from a collection manager/depositor perspective: if there are issues, how does that get resolved?
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0.4 - 9/17 — 11/10/18
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- Re-evaluating IIIF 3 manifest generation as the spec nears completion
- Expanded streaming server support
Batch Ingest
- Possible Hyrax import gem (or generic base with per-app modifications)
- Developing in collaboration with WGBH/AVP using Donut work
- Ensure batch ingest spreadsheet and documentation are updated
UI/UX work - mockups / Initial design work
- Create designs for Home/list/item and playlist pages
- Structural metadata rendering
- Avalon look and feel defined, with mockups for evaluation
- Start of style guide
- Wireframes generated
- Hi-fidelity (HTML) mockups?
Transcoding pipeline work — ActiveEncode
Continued metadata work
Model refinement
Docker and Local Install instructions
0.5 - 11/26/18—1/11/19
- Bibliographic import functionality with improved error handling compared to Avalon 6
- IIIF Authentication
- Defining the scope for a transcoding dashboard within the application
- Refinement of installation instructions, including Docker and local
- Batch Ingest Functionality Finished
- Investigation of Universal Viewer - Contributing/ adopting parts
0.6 - 1/28—3/22
- Start of development on playlist functionality
- Embedded player
- Permissions working group (Samvera PAWG) check in
- UI Design and skinning
- Automation scripts (Ansible)
0.7 - 4/8—5/31
- Possible Permissions work
- Playlist cont.
- Publish/ Unpublish (save issue)
- Autoscripts/ Deployments Scripts cont'd
- Grant Extension work
0.8 - 6/17-8/9
- Structural Metadata Editor - porting from Avalon 6
- Ingest API
- Continued UI Work
- LTI Functionality
0.9- 8/26 — 9/18/19
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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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