avalon media system community update webinar

Update for Community Partners on the Avalon Media System

Community Partners Webinar October 2, 2012

Using the Webinar Platform

•  Participants’ microphones have been muted

•  Use the Chat Window to post questions or if you are experiencing technical difficulties

•  Type your question in the Chat window & hit ‘enter’

•  Webinar is being recorded

10.2.2012 Avalon Webinar 2

Today’s Speakers •  Jon Dunn

o  Interim Assistant Dean for Library Technologies and Digital Libraries, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries

•  Mark Notess o  Manager, Teaching and Learning Systems

Development, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries


Agenda •  Project overview & status •  Demo •  Release 1 •  Plans beyond Release 1 •  Partner survey


Project Overview

•  Funded in part by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

•  Implementation grant: September 2011 – October 2014

•  Partnership between Indiana University and Northwestern University


Project Partners and Collaborators


Development Team Northwestern University •  Stu Baker, project director •  Steve DiDomenico, scrum

master •  Stefan Elnabli, metadata/

preservation specialist •  Michael Klein, lead developer •  Karen Miller, metadata analyst •  Julie Rudder, product owner •  Claire Stewart, product owner/

director •  Andrea Zielke, project assistant

Indiana University •  Jon Dunn, project director •  Chris Colvard, lead developer •  Phuong Dinh, developer •  Julie Hardesty, metadata

analyst •  Brianna Marshall, project

assistant •  Mark Notess, product owner/

manager •  Nathan Rogers, developer


Project Objectives

Goal: Create an open source system to enable libraries and archives to provide online access to video and audio collections •  Digital audio/video management and delivery

system, focused on needs of libraries and archives •  Follow an agile, open source development model •  Leverage existing technologies, where feasible •  Communicate and market the project broadly to

increase awareness and grow the community of users and developers


Project Progress •  Most of development team hired •  Trained on Agile Development •  Release 0, July 2012 – announced and available on

a server for community demo •  New name: Avalon Media System •  Active participation in Hydra and Matterhorn

communities •  Marketing & communication planning


Current Activities •  Northwestern hiring one more developer •  Website design •  Marketing and communication planning •  Release 1 development •  Metadata and object modeling


Communication Work 1.  Presentations at conferences attended by target audiences 2.  Support for internal communications of partner institutions 3.  Announcements of development milestones such as the

launch of Release 1.0 of the Avalon Media System 4.  Social media marketing:

•  Comments on blogs, listservs and forums visited by target audiences

•  Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites •  Webinars

5.  Avalon website – should be up in November •  For more information •  For getting involved •  URL in all other communications


Demo


Release 1 •  Expected in February 2013 •  Goal is to support installation and piloting by

partners •  Functionality

•  File upload, transcoding & descriptive metadata: manual or batch •  Batch loading via dropbox and tabular data file • Authentication and authorization – optional integration would

require use of LDAP or some minor programming •  Red5 and Adobe Flash media server support • Discovery via Blacklight faceted search & browse •  Playback on desktop browsers & mobile devices (iOS &

Android) •  Basic monitoring & troubleshooting


Release 1 Pilot Support •  Distribution packages

•  Both source distribution and some form of preconfigured package, e.g. VM image

•  Installation & configuration documentation •  Email support •  Advice on hardware & software env. by Jan 1

•  Goal: Small pilots/tests can be run on one server or VM; larger scale use may require distributing functions across multiple machines

•  Content & metadata from pilots can be migrated forward to future versions


R1 Architecture

Avalon Media System

Archival Storage Solution

AuthN

LMS, websites

ILS

Hydrant Rails App

Hydra Head

Black-‐‑ light

Ruby-‐‑ horn

Media Player (MaOerhorn Engage)

Fedora Solr MaOerhorn

Media Server (Red5, Flash)

All

Desktop, Mobile

Browser, Drop box

Search, browse, view media

Ingest (batch or manual): video, audio, metadata

Integrations Users

Collection Manager

Can-‐‑Can

Omni-‐‑Auth

AuthZ

n after R1 n Avalon code


Metadata for R1 •  Descriptive metadata

o  MODS

•  Structural/content metadata o  METS

•  Technical metadata o  Will be a focus after R1

•  Still looking at PBCore, for technical metadata and/or as an export format


Beyond R1 •  Releases every three months •  Workflow & batch loading improvements •  Authorization improvements •  Structural metadata for navigation •  Playlists and clip making •  Easy player embedding •  Transcripts •  Publishing out to other systems •  More optimization for mobile •  Focused accessibility work

•  We want to know what your priorities are!


Help with Requirements •  Survey:

o  Media server o  Authentication methods o  Metadata o  Media formats o  Distribution packages o  Importance of VM image

Take the survey: http://tinyurl.com/AvalonWebinarSurvey


Participation •  Try out R0

http://pawpaw.dlib.indiana.edu

•  Plan to pilot R1 •  See what we’re up to via the project wiki:

https://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/x/G5lzHg

•  Watch bi-weekly demos: https://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/x/NxKKHg

•  Browse user stories, tasks & bugs in Jira: https://bugs.dlib.indiana.edu/browse/VOV


Questions? •  Use the chat module to ask a question:

•  Northwestern & Indiana teams are online to answer


For more information

•  http://avalonmediasystem.org/ •  IRC: chat.freenode.net #projectvov •  Avalon e-mail list. E-mail

[email protected] to subscribe

@avalonmediasys

facebook.com/avalonmediasys •  Or contact Jon Dunn: [email protected]


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