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
- 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