Avalon 7.8

Avalon 7.8 includes a new component for searching transcripts within the transcript viewer, dependency upgrades, and a variety of bug fixes and minor improvements.

Search, Navigation, and UI Updates

• "Found in" text now appears in search results, indicating the number of matches for separate areas of the record: descriptive metadata, section metadata and transcript text
• Upgraded to Ramp 3.2, which includes a component for searching within documents in the transcript viewer with rich navigation and match highlighting
• IIIF Content Search service
• Playback rate control: media playback speed can be decreased or increased with a widget in the media player
• Catalog searches return more quickly
• IIIF manifest URL added to the Share panel
• Embedded media player now uses Ramp

Other Major Changes and Update

• Captions can be marked as, allowing them to serve as both captions and navigable document within the transcript viewer
• The Avalon API now allows for CRUD operations for supplemental files, including caption and transcript files
• Batch ingest now accepts columns captions and transcript files and metadata
• Transcript language can now be specified per file
• New configuration added to provide a link for direct download of derivatives through the UI
• New recordChangeDate field to track the last change to descriptive metadata
• "Has Transcript" and "Has Caption" facets moved to the admin facet listing
• File size limit for web upload changed to remove the 2 GB default
• Added setting for configuring alternative Rack tempfile location
• Bibliographic ID value added to the search index for instances where import is not performed

Bug Fixes

• Short playlist descriptions do not results in buttons next to text
• Playlist description is now collapsed by default
• Poster and thumbnail images are no set to improper aspect ratios for certain video container files
• Added handling for media whose ratio is defined in metadata and was not reported by mediainfo
• Limit the number of stream tokens in a user session to avoid session overflow errors
• Timecode values in the Timeliner tool display properly for media longer than 60 minutes
• Fixed an internal error when saving a parent object fails
• Parsing fix for SRT files