Meeting Time

Monday, March 11 at 1 PM EDT

Zoom Link

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

Agenda/Notes

• Avalon user survey

  • Please fill out ASAP if you haven’t already!

  • Avalon Media System Survey 2023

  • roadmap items can be left blank or marked “not sure” as needed

• Version 7.7 is released! (see Github)

  • we have identified a few bugs, so anticipate a 7.7.1 release fairly soon

  • most critical is that .srt will not work for captions in 7.7; need 7.7.1 for that. video.js player in Ramp does not natively support .srt captions.

• Update on duration of media item in results list vs. player

  • Running Time is Incorrect In Item Metadata · Issue #5672 · avalonmediasystem/avalon

• Transcript searching phase 1 for next release - any additional feedback?

  • Repository search: Transcript Search and Indexing · Issue #5708 · avalonmediasystem/avalon

    • Has Caption and Has Transcript - this will show to users / anyone how much of our collection has these. Could this be good/bad?

    • Could we align transcript with timestamps as part of upload if file does not have timestamps?

    • Need to test whether .docx or .txt with timestamps if allows users to navigate to timestamps in transcript?

    • Kee-Young: at this point, don’t have a lot of records with transcripts, so a little nervous about having Has Caption or Has Transcript as a facet. Jason: thumbs up to the idea of a facet. Jeannette: this would be useful for disabled users.

    • Kee-Young: they’d like the search box to retain the search term so users can add on to terms with successive searches; see Aviary

    • Kee-Young: what is the matching configuration for Avalon Solr? Looks like it isn’t doing any stemming of plurals. UMD currently advises staff users to use exact title to get to item.

    • Kee-Young: Date facet shows top results ordered by # of results. Wouldn’t it make more sense to order by date? What are other popular sites doing? This was reported as confusing by a user.

  • Search within an item: Search within media item · Issue #5709 · avalonmediasystem/avalon

    • No real use case yet for multiple sections, each with their own transcript

    • UMD: do have use case for really long videos, like 2 hours, and how will this work with a very long transcript. IU has some captions for 90 minute lecture videos that we could experiment with.

  • Items from other institutions

    • Kee-Young: Avalon is on 7.4 and has been improving IIIF manifest generation. Is there an easier way for users to find the IIIF manifest for the item.

      • Like Aviary, Avalon or Ramp should have some kind of button for downloading the IIIF manifest

      • Example public item manifest from UMD: https://av.lib.umd.edu/media_objects/0p096758h/manifest.json. Why are these not working in Mirador?

        • https://av.lib.umd.edu/media_objects/0p096758h/manifest.json

      • Currently, only Ramp, Clover, and Aviary IIIF player support HLS streaming, which is how Avalon provides access to media files.

• Future agenda items?

  • Demo of LTI integration with course management system

  • Potential conversation around upgrade process for institutions that have been using Avalon for awhile (how to handle code customizations, etc.)

  • Bulk metadata editing discussion - what are the needs for this in Avalon? Are there tools in the community that could be re-used to help?

  • Summary of survey responses

Attendees

• Jon Cameron (Indiana University)

• Emily Lynema (Indiana University)

• Kee-Young Moon (UMD)

• Jason Coleman (NEC)

• Jeannette Ho (Texas A&M, cataloging & metadata)