This presentation will focus on Northwestern University and Indiana University’s continued work toward a sustainable model for support, maintenance, and development of the Avalon Media System - an open-source, Samvera-based repository for audio and video jointly developed since 2011. Over the last two years, the team has focused on widening engagement with and commitment to the Samvera and IIIF communities as well as developing wider developer interest by re-basing the product on top of Hyrax and developing a modular architecture. and A proposal and presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in Hamburg, Germany, in 2019, described thus
Keyword:
Grants, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), Avalon, Samvera, Open Repositories 2019, Sustainability, and Hyrax
Subject:
Avalon Media System
Creator:
Dunn, Jon, Schober, David, and Steans, Ryan
Contributor:
Andrew W Mellon Foundation, Indiana University, Samvera, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Northwestern University
A lightning talk (seven minute) presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus, UI, Structural Metadata Editor, Encode Settings and more. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording., and A quick demo of the latest features and changes in Avalon Media System, showcasing developments across the application
streaming media protocols and their differences, file formats and codecs, Slides from an on-line workshop given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus, This workshop will provide a general overview of streaming media technologies and applications, as well as a hands-on portion where participants will configure a simple Rails application with a streaming server. Topics will include a brief overview of commonly used streaming servers and applications, both local and cloud-hosted, and and browser support. The workshop component will include a walk-through of setting up Nginx as a streaming server, building a Rails app with stream security and authorization. Docker containers will be provided.
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Avalon, Samvera, Workshop, Community, and Connect 2020
IIIF player, is a ReactJS component which renders a MediaElementJS player and a structure navigation component from a IIIF 3.0 spec manifest. This is delivered as an exportable yarn/npm package. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
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Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, Avalon, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Samvera
Modern javascript frameworks like React and Vue facilitate building dynamic, rich user interfaces (like thematic sites or research tools). In this lightning talk, we'll show how we each built search components using these frameworks which use the Blacklight API but not the Blacklight UI. We'll also discuss how these components are being utilized and possibilities for making shared community javascript components. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, Samvera, and User experience
A presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis described thus and Avalon Media System requires support for complex structure and modular descriptive metadata management. Use cases and examples will examine options for Avalon in Fedora such as the RDF data model in Fedora 4, static XML datastreams, and external data stores to determine which path best fits structural and descriptive metadata needs for time-based media.
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Fedora, Avalon, Hydra, Open Repositories 2015, Metadata, and Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Indiana University and Northwestern University, in collaboration with nine partner institutions, recently completed the last year of a three-year IMLS-funded effort to build the Avalon Media System, an open source solution for managing and providing access to digital audio and video collections, based on Fedora and the Hydra repository software development framework. As the Avalon platform reaches maturity, several institutions are in the process of implementing Avalon both to replace current time-based media access solutions and to support new use cases. In addition, new funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support continued work to develop new features, grow and provide support for the community of adopters, and move Avalon towards organizational and financial sustainability. This panel will bring together project leaders from Indiana and Northwestern, along with Avalon community members at the University of Virginia and Stanford University, to share experiences of implementing Avalon at their institutions, integrating Avalon with other local systems, and supporting Avalon to enable a variety of use cases in research, teaching, and learning. Panel members will also discuss future development plans and provide a preview of how the project intends to transition from a grant-supported endeavor to a community-sustained solution. and Slides for a panel presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis described thus
Keyword:
Fedora, Avalon, Digital collections, Hydra, Repository, Sustainability, Open Repositories 2015, Community, Digitization, Preservation, Workflow, and Archives
Subject:
Avalon Media System
Creator:
Frost, Hannah, Grants, Dunn, Jon, Rudder, Julie, Cane, Debs, and Durbin, Mike
Contributor:
Andrew W Mellon Foundation, University of Virginia, Stanford University, Northwestern University, and Indiana University
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2018 described thus and Avalon Media System is working towards a release to integrate with Hyrax in support of time-based media formats. This includes creating a Work type to support the needs of audio and video formats and provide an upgrade path for those who have been using Avalon in it’s previous releases as a standalone Samvera product. Join us for a look at the new Audiovisual Work type, specifically how we’re transitioning descriptive metadata from MODS XML to RDF. A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Avalon, Samvera, Virtual Connect 2018, Lightning talk, Hyrax, and Metadata
Subject:
Avalon Media System and Samvera Community
Creator:
Hardesty, Juliet L and Young, Jennifer
Contributor:
Indiana University, University of Utah, and Northwestern University