Release 4: Target Date June 2015
Structural Metadata: (examples - migrating from Variations to Avalon; importing new items with an existing file that is created outside of the system)
Navigation by structure (jump to point)
Designate structure (via specification file; file could be referenced in batch spreadsheet; structure per section)
including segment label
hierarchy
time offset
Means of editing previously specified structure (could be just a file edit in the interface)
Dependency Simplification - Transcoding API
Pluggability of transcoding engines
- Wowza integration
- Hydra 8
Accessibility Phase One
Navigation of web page elements?
Using player controls?
Other potential new features
Notes field
Better visibility of access control status for bulk selected items
Indexing sections/structure labels
- Canvas LTI integration improvements (linking directly to item/section)
- oEmbed support
- Facebook integration
Release 5: Dec 2015
Implement technical environment for a pilot hosted Avalon service offering
Structural Metadata stage 2 TBD
Interactive editor
Get structure from sources (media files via wav markers); internet source (freedb); physical media - like tracks on cd)
Remaining accessibility work
Captioning
APIs for player interaction, content ingest, metadata ingest, updating of existing content and metadata, and management of large collections of content
Release 6: June 2016
Bookmarking,Clip Making, and Playlists feature subset as determined by user research
Annotation
Spotlight Integration Support
Synchronized Transcripts
Release 7: Dec 2016
Publishing Out to External Media Sites
Additional Embedding Functionality
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming
Access control enhancements: IP restrictions, start/end dates, custom URLs with password or access-count features.
Technical work to schedule:
- Automated functional testing
- Fedora 4
- Hydra 9
- Cloud solution
- RDF
- PCDM
- Packaging/deployment, e.g. use of Docker
- Support for other streaming mechanisms, e.g. MPEG-DASH
- Scalability issues that may arise
Unscheduled Features
- 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
- 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
- Browse Everything integration
- Browse Everything integration
- Bulk publish/unpublish
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- Bulk delete
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- Bulk collection re-assign
- Bulk actions for access control
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R3.3 Jan/Feb 2015
- Import descriptive metadata from ILS
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- Accessibility assessment
- Import multiple quality level derivatives per section