Meeting Time

Monday, August 12 at 1 PM Eastern

Attendees

Avalon 7.8 Release
- Demo: https://demo.avalonmediasystem.org/
- Current Release Information
- https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases/tag/v7.8
- Transcript text is searched in the index.
- IIIF content search supports search within the Transcript component
- By default, no limit on file size for web file upload
- Basic configuration for download of derivatives
- Can specify language for transcripts, as well as captions
- Timestamp in Solr index now only updated when the descriptive metadata is changed - IU uses this to harvest updated records through the Atom feed for updating in an external system
- Bibliographic ID used to import metadata to record being saved to the Avalon record
- API support to upload / edit / delete supplemental files (captions, transcripts, other supplemental files)
- Batch ingest can support upload of captions, transcripts, and other supplemental files
Should Date continue to be a required metadata field?
- currently require Title and Date by default
Next month:
- discuss use cases for batch editing of records in Avalon
- summation of survey

Future agenda items?
- Potential conversation around upgrade process for institutions that have been using Avalon for awhile (how to handle code customizations, etc.)