Meeting Time

Monday, August 12 at 1 PM Eastern

Attendees

• Jon Cameron (Indiana University)

• Emily Lynema (Indiana University)

• Kee-Young Moon (UMD)

• John Merritt - U of Louisville Libraries (Systems)

Zoom Link

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

Agenda/Notes

• Avalon 7.8 Release

  • Demo: https://demo.avalonmediasystem.org/

  • Current Release Information

  • https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/avalon/releases/tag/v7.8

  • Transcript text is searched in the index.

  • IIIF content search supports search within the Transcript component

  • By default, no limit on file size for web file upload

  • Basic configuration for download of derivatives

  • Can specify language for transcripts, as well as captions

  • Timestamp in Solr index now only updated when the descriptive metadata is changed - IU uses this to harvest updated records through the Atom feed for updating in an external system

  • Bibliographic ID used to import metadata to record being saved to the Avalon record

  • API support to upload / edit / delete supplemental files (captions, transcripts, other supplemental files)

  • Batch ingest can support upload of captions, transcripts, and other supplemental files

  • Questions

    • UMD: glad to see that hasCaption and hasTranscript facet is limited to collection staff.

    • UMD: results for speech-to-text? They are evaluating Whisper and AWS Transcribe as well.

      • https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam

      • ai4lam speech to text working group: Charter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MZr0JfylHmkcBK9K-J7A4KKw-f_SyrwqW4T1AMqoWfk/edit#heading=h.j6j2bxd2c0zj

    • UMD: what metadata is being searched in the big search box?

      • all descriptive metadata, structural metadata, and transcripts

• Should Date continue to be a required metadata field?

  • currently require Title and Date by default

  • no particular feedback from UMD / Louisville yet about Publication Date. Might be using this as date the item is published in Avalon.

• Next month:

  • discuss use cases for batch editing of records in Avalon

  • summation of survey

• Future agenda items?

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

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