Meeting Time

Monday, July 10th at 1 PM EDT

Zoom Link

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

Agenda/Notes

• Avalon 7.7 development updates

  • Ramp Demo (new URL!)

    • Metadata component

    • Prev/Next navigation through canvases in the media player (ex multi-file manifest to plug into Ramp)

    • Tweaks to media player UI to align a little more closely with current Avalon player

  • IIIF Manifest Generation in Avalon - many components added to the IIIF manifest

  • Performance

    • SpeedyAF work in Avalon

    • are there areas that present performance problems at other institutions we need to consider?

      • Nothing reported by attendees

      • Avalon team looking to improve performance for large selection/edit actions

• Analytics

  • IU just upgraded to GA4 analytics in our instance

  • What do you use for analytics in your Avalon instance? What are you needs?

    • Helpful to know what are being used, and at the collections basis

    • UMD about to transition to Matomo

    • UCSD using custom setup with Splunk

• Playlists

  • Are you using playlists at your institution? If so, do they work well?

    • Charles using sections, not playlists at IULMIA for 16mm compilations- 30 minutes long, 50 ads per reel, divided into sections/tracks for each segment

    • Playlists are title for each product

    • Before playlists, adding things

    • Could playlists be used as dynamic selections of content (as in a Spotlight exhibit)

    • Kee-Young and Carmel both noted that it would be convenient for objects to belong to multiple collections

• Avalon updates from other institutions

  • No other updates

Attendees

• Ron Stanonik - UCSD

• Thor Brickman - UCSD

• Charles Allen - IULMIA

• Carmel Curtis - IULMIA

• Kee-Young Moon - UMD