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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/API

    • Pluggability of transcoding engines

  • Wowza integration

  • 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

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

  • MARC Support

  • PBCore/DublinCore crosswalks

  • Controlled Vocabularies

  • Import 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

  • 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



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