Avalon Release Road Map

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 considerations:

-Automated functional testing

-Fedora 4

-Hydra 8? 9?

-Cloud solution

-RDF

-FCDM/Hydra::Works

-Packaging/deplyment, e.g. use of Docker

-Support for other streaming mechanisms, e.g. MPEG-DASH

-Scalability

Unscheduled Features

-Reporting and metrics

-Collections based group management

-Collections based master file handling

-Metadata

• Technical metadata?

• Administrative metadata (owner, digitizer)

• Provenance?

• MARC Support?

• PBCore/DublinCore crosswalks?

• Controlled Vocabulary

-Integration with Wowza

-Import from other sources

-Internationalization

-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
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• 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