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 - September 30th

• Hydra 7 upgrade
• Add some needed metadata fields - original physical description, language, related links, terms of use (item and batch)

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• Navigate to dropbox subdirectories
• Import multiple quality level derivatives per section
• Bulk publish/unpublish
• Bulk delete
• Bulk collection re-assign
• Design bulk actions for access control, metadata

R3.2.1 Oct 2014

• Import descriptive metadata from ILS

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R4 - January 2015

• Media processing prioritization/queue management

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• Bulk assignment of access controls and metadata

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• Timeframes for access control (start/end dates)
• Reporting and metrics
• Structural Metadata - Import/Storage 

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• Structural Metadata - User Navigation 

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Post R4

• Make large ingest faster and better (Distributed transcoding?)
• Pluggable Transcoding Options
• Accessibility (navigability, closed captioning)
• IP restricted access
• Collections based group management
• Collections based master file handling
• Media player issues 

• Improve ingest workflow - Support simple ingest/editing with progressive disclosure of complexity

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• Metadata
  • Technical metadata 
  • Administrative metadata (owner, digitizer)
  • Provenance
  • MARC Support
  • PBCore/DublinCore crosswalks
  • Controlled Vocabulary
• Clip Making - Define segment and point to it
• Structural Metadata - Interactive Editor
• Playlists
• APIs (ingest, analytics, metadata, etc)

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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