Avalon 2.0 Partners Webinar Presented on November 14, 2013 Presenters: Jon Dunn, Indiana University Julie Rudder, Northwestern University Mark Notess, Indiana University

1. Avalon
2.0
Partners
Webinar
November
14,
2013

2. Agenda
•
•
•
•
Background
and
progress
–
Jon
Dunn,
Indiana
Demo
–
Julie
Rudder,
Northwestern
Roadmap
–
Mark
Notess,
Indiana
Q&A
-­‐
all

3. Project
ObjecMves
Goal:
Create
an
open
source
system
to
enable
libraries
and
archives
to
provide
online
access
to
video
and
audio
collecMons
• Digital
audio/video
management
and
delivery
system,
focused
on
needs
of
libraries
and
archives
• Follow
an
agile,
open
source
development
model
• Leverage
exisMng
technologies,
where
feasible
• Communicate
and
market
the
project
broadly
to
increase
awareness
and
grow
the
community
of
users
and
developers

4. Avalon
Architecture
Integra-ons
ILS
LMS,
websites
AuthenMc-­‐
aMon
Authoriz-­‐
aMon
Archival
Storage
Users
Avalon
Media
System
Hydrant
Rails
App
Omni-­‐
Auth
Can-­‐
Can
Fedora
Hydra
Head
Media
Player
(mediaelement.js)
Black-­‐
light
Ruby-­‐
horn
Search
Browse
View
Ingest
Describe
Solr
MaZerhorn
Media
Server
Manage
n
Avalon
code
–
consists
of
Hydrant
Rails
App
and
the
Rubyhorn
gem.
Other
pieces
are
leveraged.
Desktop,
Mobile
All
Users
Browser,
Drop
box
CollecMon
Staff

5. Partners
MeeMng
Highlights
October
2-­‐3
in
Bloomington
29
aZendees,
represenMng:
• Indiana
University
• New
York
University
• Northwestern
University
• Stanford
University
•
•
•
•
University
of
ConnecMcut
University
of
Miami
University
of
Virginia
WGBH

6. Partner
MeeMng
Major
Topics
•
•
•
•
•
Project
update
and
demo
Roadmap
review
and
prioriMes
Avalon
and
WGBH’s
HydraDAM
Running
Pilots
at
insMtuMons
Post-­‐grant
sustainability
and
governance
A
more
detailed
agenda
and
notes
are
available
online:
hZps://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/
display/VarVideo/October
+2013+Partners+MeeMng+-­‐+Notes
Code
hacking!

7. Partner
MeeMng
Major
Outcomes
• Avalon
and
WGBH
OpenVault
developers
to
talk.
• We
have
a
beZer
understanding
of
the
range
of
Kaltura
use
cases
by
partners.
• Avalon
will
likely
broaden
use
cases
to
address
user-­‐
generated
content
(end-­‐user
upload).
• RaMonalizing
units/collecMons
concepts
with
other
Hydra
projects.
• Will
implement
LTI
integraMon
to
support
LMS-­‐based
authorizaMon.
• Many
sustainability
models
and
possible
affiliaMons
to
explore
further.
• We
are
looking
for
someone
to
fill
a
role
of
developer
community
liaison.

8. Release
2.0
(October
21,
2013)
• New
hierarchical
permissions
model
supports
a
flexible
approach
to
collecMons-­‐based
content
management.
• CollecMons
can
have
default
access
controls
and
be
more
easily
shared
with
defined
groups.
• An
about
page
shows
the
system
health
and
supports
automated
system
monitoring.
• Staff
can
create
custom
thumbnails
for
video
content
by
taking
a
“snapshot”
during
playback
or
by
specifying
a
Mmepoint.
• More
usable
media
player
with
beZer
plalorm
support

9. Release
History
•
•
•
•
•
0.1
–
July
2012
0.5
–
October
2012
1.0
–
May
2013
2.0
–
October
2013
3.0
–
Winter
2014
• Goal:
Release
every
3
months

10. Avalon
2.0
Demo

11. Planned
Features
of
Release
3.0
• Improved
file
management,
with
the
ability
to
track
master
files
and
derivaMves
in
Fedora
repository.
• IntegraMon
with
external
sources
of
group
membership,
iniMally
class
rosters
via
LTI
in
LMS.
• MigraMon/assignment
of
persistent
URL.
• Improved
method
of
imporMng
previously
encoded
derivaMves.

12. Beyond
R3
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Embedding
Structural
metadata
for
navigaMon
Dropbox
privacy
between
collecMons
Accessibility
Import
of
descripMve
metadata
(MARC,
EAD)
Playlists
&
clip-­‐making
Transcripts
and
auxiliary
items
More
scalability
&
performance
work
on
transcoding
Controlled
vocabularies
Publishing
out
to
Youtube
or
other
systems
InternaMonalizaMon

13. Follow
our
progress
• Roadmap:
hZps://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/display/
VarVideo/Road+Map+Post+R1
• Progress
by
2-­‐week
sprint:
hZps://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/display/
VarVideo/Avalon+Current+Sprint
• End-­‐of-­‐sprint
2-­‐week
demo
recordings
hZps://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/display/
VarVideo/Project+Sprint+Demos

14. QuesMons?
Please
type
any
quesMons
you
have
in
the
chat
window.

15. Learn
More
About
Avalon
• Website:
hZp://avalonmediasystem.org/
• Listserv:
E-­‐mail
avalon-­‐discuss-­‐l-­‐subscribe@indiana.edu
to
subscribe
• Social
media:
@avalonmediasys
facebook.com/avalonmediasys
• Or
contact:
Jon
Dunn:
jwd@iu.edu
Claire
Stewart:
claire-­‐stewart@northwestern.edu
Mark
Notess:
mnotess@iu.edu
Avalon
is
funded
in
part
by
a
NaMonal
Leadership
Grant
from
the
InsMtute
of
Museum
and
Library
Services.