Meeting Time

Monday, June 16, at 1 PM Eastern

Attendees

• Emily Lynema (Indiana Univ)

• Mark Baggett (Texas A&M)

• Kee-Young Moon (UMD)

• Joshua Westgard (UMD)

Zoom Link

https://iu.zoom.us/j/83005000583?pwd=wUfCIwmFV7tfZyXe8AGvld58yp8sOc.1

Agenda/Notes

• Introductions

• Update on next release

  • Blacklight 8 and Rails 8 upgrade mostly complete

  • Hopefully Bootstrap 5 + Wowza upgrade

  • New note type: Instruments (maps to 382 in MARC record)

  • New metadata field: Alternative title

  • New public facet: Rights Statement

  • Rename Location metadata field to Geographic Subject

  • Link to form to request accessible version on the item view page

  • Prevent auth time-out during long videos or when page is left open in browser

  • Improve keyboard / screenreader navigation of Ramp components (auto-advance, structure, transcript)

  • search box retains previously entered search terms

  • pull any existing caption files from mp4 container upon ingest

• Accessibility compliance needs and planning - updates

  • Avalon can support upload of transcripts and captions. User-facing pages have been or will be reviewed for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance (timelines could be an issue)

  • NEW: Avalon and Ramp will be investigating how to support audio description when available for media items

  • IU plans a (presumably optional per site configuration) workflow in Avalon that does not allow post April 2026 materials to be published if they do not have a caption or transcript.

  • NEW: Hope to build an integration based on Active Encode to allow collection managers to request a machine-generated caption/transcript for a post April 2026 item.

  • Other needs for institutions to support WCAG 2.1 by April 2026

• Emily’s last day at IU will be July 23. Moving to Director, Design & Discovery at the University of Michigan Library.

• Other agenda items?

  • If folks are stuck on 7.x (can’t move to Fedora 6 yet), can they get to the 8.x releases with accessibility improvements?

    • both UMD and Texas A&M are interested in this; will bring up on Slack whether it is possible to run 8.x against Fedora 4 and possibly test this

  • UMD would like some of the 8.1 enhancements in their 7.8 instance since they can’t move to Fedora 6 for awhile yet.

    • esp. Rights Management and retaining search terms in search box

    • May consider cherrypicking this

  • LTI 1.1 will be end of life soon

    • LTI 1.3 was investigated; at IU the Canvas folks said they do support 1.3, but there was no urgency to upgrade from 1.1 in the meantime as support continued.

    • Initially, UMD just wants course lists of material that

    • In the future, UMD would like to actually move plugin work with Atlas into Avalon, but that would require LTI 1.3. Allow Ares to communicate directly with Avalon so students can access any items in Avalon from their LMS.

    • Integrating Ares with LTI 1.3

    • Ares presents course reserve lists in Canvas. Ares uses the LTI integration to allow the user to click on an AV item directly in the course reserve lists in Canvas and go directly through to Avalon.

  • Ingesting caption files

    • Is there a way to bulk ingest captions into Avalon prior to 7.8 release? In what release did Avalon begin supporting caption files in multiple languages?

    • We think that prior to 7.8, captions and supplemental files could be ingested as part of batch ingest, but not sure if they could be added via batch ingest to existing records.

Potential Future Agenda Items

• LTI integration and course reserve workflows - demo of UMD for course reserves

• Use of Avalon 8.x with Fedora 6?