2023-12-11 Avalon User Roundtable Meeting

Meeting Time

Monday, December 11th at 1 PM EDT

Zoom Link

https://iu.zoom.us/j/84620830059?pwd=bWo3R081M3BtaytFMjZnS0FzQkd2dz09

Agenda/Notes

  • Avalon user survey

  • Avalon 7.7 development updates

    • playlist page with Ramp components

  • Roadmap items for Avalon for next year

    • transcript search (within items and across entire collection)

    • IIIF auth 2.0 support

    • From user survey, top items to consider

      • Fedora 6

      • admin dashboard

    • Others feedback?

      • Kee-Young: how to support batch updates on existing items - this would be useful to add series metadata for past items

      • Kee-Young: export/download a list of items in spreadsheet format to review metadata

  • Updates/questions from other institutions

    • Sruthin: want to make Avalon look and feel like an MSU site. Had to make a bunch of changes to views to get the site to look the way that they like. How to retain those updates during future updates.

      • Heavily working on the home page. Custom header, pre-footer, and footer, as well as background, etc. After that will be customizing the browse/search pages.

    • Jason: in earlier releases, when uploading on the web, had to use Chrome. In 7.6 and 7.7, should be able to use Firefox.

    • Kee-Young: is there more documentation on how to use Avalon for course reserves.

  • Next meeting rescheduled to the third Tuesday in January due to holidays. Scheduled for 1/16/24 at 1pm Eastern.

  • Future agenda items?

    • UMD OAI-PMH demo - tentatively schedule for next meeting, 1/16/24

      • Harvested content will be available through Digital Library of Georgia; eventually DPLA. Labor and Civil Rights in the American South. UMD has AFL-CIO records.

    • Demo of LTI integration with course management system

    • Summary of survey responses

Attendees

  • Emily Lynema (Indiana)

  • Jon Cameron (Indiana)

  • Kee-Young Moon (UMD, Avalon product )

  • Sruthin Gaddam (MSU, UX)

  • Jason Coleman (NEC)

  • Carmel Curtis (Indiana - IULMIA)