Meeting Time

Monday, February 24, at 1 PM Eastern

Attendees

Zoom Link

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

Agenda/Notes

• New avalonmediasystem.org website, hosted as a static site on Samvera infrastructure

  • Some revisions still planned: Site Updates · Issue #3 · samvera/avalon-next

• All Avalon-related email discussion should now go to a single email list: avalon-l@list.iu.edu

• Avalon 8.0 update

  • Upgrade instructions complete (except for terraform). Would be great to enhance with experiences from other institutions.

  • Fedora 6 migration at IU is still in progress. Testing an updated version of the Fedora 4 export tool that will hopefully allow traversing our large root node.

  • Aiming for deployment over February 28 weekend

• Upgrade process / experiences for Avalon institutions

  • How have you handled code customizations, etc? What challenges have you faced?

  • UCLA

  • UMD

  • University of Louisville, John Merritt

    • at the end of last year, we updated our avalon-docker install to 7.7, which brought our avalon instance to 7.8. 

      Being new to Avalon (and Docker), getting acclimated to the how it all fit together was the most challenging part. The upgrade instructions were indispensable! Once we were able to successfully reproduce upgrading our production-clone machine (after several learning attempts), production was straightforward. 

    • Our install is pretty much stock vanilla. I just made sure that my working “recipe” accounted for every step in each of the upgrade docs. At the time we upgraded, I think we had around 5000 items. Re-indexing took the longest (of course), but it was all done within a day.

      Also, we are in the process of updating the UI with more of our branding. Our site is still not open to the public but used primarily for class resources. 

• Are any other institutions using the structure to provide navigation within recordings?

  • IU may want to make some changes to rules around segments, so would like to check in with anyone using it

• Next meeting at regular day / time: March 17

• Other agenda items?

Potential Future Agenda Items