Poster presented by Stefan Elnabli at Archives 2013 in August 2013.

1. Avalon is built upon major open source
technologies: Hydra (Fedora, Solr,
Blacklight) and .
These technologies emphasize a modular
approach rather than a monolithic code
base with a “black box” architecture.
Avalon Media System is a freely available tool
that enables libraries and archives to easily
create, manage and provide controlled online
teaching, learning and research. Funded in
and Library Services, Avalon is the product
University and Northwestern University,
facebook.com/AvalonMediaSys
@AvalonMediaSys
avalonmediasystem.org
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What is Avalon?
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Stefan Elnabli
Digital Collections
Northwestern University Library
Teaching with Avalon
Teaching faculty can create clips, playlists and
within media items. Structural metadata allows for
with
course management systems and library
systems ease the process of sharing
items safely with courses.
Students and Researchers
Students and researchers enjoy the benefits of
and structural metadata. Students and researchers
can view media when they want, where they
want through their desktops or mobile devices.
and robust metadata
make media easier to find.
For those who are behind the scenes
robust access
control allows them to share items with
groups and individuals more easily and securely.
offer content curators the ability
IT Departments
Avalon supports . This will
make it easier for future contributors and users
to add or remove parts based on their needs.
include Integrated Library Systems,
and Fedora digital repository.
Avalon Functionality Highlights
• Playback on desktop browsers and
mobile devices (iOS)
• Manual or batch file uploading, transcoding, and
groups or keep them private
• Red5 and Adobe Flash Media Server support
• Faceted discovery for browse and search via Blacklight
• Stream-level security for desktop and mobile
Try out Avalon
http://www.avalonmediasystem.org/try-out-avalon
Why
Avalon?
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Demo Server
• Collection based access control for viewing and editing
• Support for automated system monitoring