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 - September 30th
- 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
- Bulk publish/unpublish
- Bulk delete
- Design bulk actions for Collection re-assign, access control, metadata
- Hydra 7 upgrade
- Import multiple quality level derivatives per section
- Navigate to dropbox subdirectories
R4 - January 2015
- Media processing prioritization/queue management
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2181
- 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
- Bulk assignment of access controls, collection re-assign, metadata
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2692 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2762 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-2763
- Timeframes for access control (start/end dates)
- Reporting and metrics
- Structural metadata
R5 - Winter 2014/2015
- Distributed transcoding
- Improve ingest workflow - Support simple ingest/editing with progressive disclosure of complexity
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-138
- Structural Metadata - Import/Storage
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-521
- Structural Metadata - User Navigation
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-484 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-522 Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-519
- 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-1542
- Review of the test coverage & write more tests ???
Jira Legacy server IU DLP JIRA serverId 7db187da-a52c-3750-b791-4dc703aec548 key VOV-1544
- Logging & Statistics (Usage and Errors)
- (Non Developer) System Improvements to speed up video processing - Time to take process video, spinning up multiple workers (matterhorn) , should be exploration/documentation of Matterhorn configuration
- Metadata - Technical metadata (what is IU/NU collecting right now?), Administrative metadata (owner, digitizer)
- Clip Making - Define segment and point to it
R6 - Summer 2014
- Structural Metadata - Interactive Editor
- Playlists
Not yet scheduled:
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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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