Webinar for the Avalon Media System Project (formerly Variations on Video) on October 2, 2012. Presenters Jon Dunn and Mark Notess

1. Update for Community Partners
on the Avalon Media System
Community Partners Webinar
October 2, 2012

2. 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
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3. 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
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4. Agenda
• Project overview & status
• Demo
• Release 1
• Plans beyond Release 1
• Partner survey
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5. 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
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6. Project
Partners
and
Collaborators
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7. Development Team
Indiana University Northwestern University
• Jon Dunn, project director • Stu Baker, project director
• Chris Colvard, lead developer • Steve DiDomenico, scrum
• Phuong Dinh, developer master
• Julie Hardesty, metadata • Stefan Elnabli, metadata/
analyst preservation specialist
• Brianna Marshall, project • Michael Klein, lead developer
assistant • Karen Miller, metadata analyst
• Mark Notess, product owner/ • Julie Rudder, product owner
manager • Claire Stewart, product owner/
• Nathan Rogers, developer director
• Andrea Zielke, project assistant
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8.
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
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9. 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
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10. Current
Activities
• Northwestern hiring one more developer
• Website design
• Marketing and communication planning
• Release 1 development
• Metadata and object modeling
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11. 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
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12. Demo
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13. 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
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14. 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
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15. R1 Architecture
Integrations Users
Avalon Media System
All
ILS
LMS, Hydrant Rails App
Desktop,
websites
Media Player
Mobile
Omni-­‐‑ (MaOerhorn
AuthN
Search, browse,
Auth
Engage)
view media
AuthZ
Can-­‐‑ Hydra Black-­‐‑ Ruby-­‐‑ Collection
Archival Can
Head
light
horn
Manager
Storage
Solution
Browser,
Fedora
Solr
MaOerhorn
Drop box
Media Server
Ingest (batch or
n after R1
(Red5, Flash)
manual): video,
n Avalon code
audio, metadata
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16. 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
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17. 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!
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18. 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
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19. 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
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20. Questions?
• Use the chat module to ask a question:
• Northwestern & Indiana teams are online to answer
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21. For more information
• http://avalonmediasystem.org/
• IRC: chat.freenode.net #projectvov
• Avalon e-mail list. E-mail
avalon-l-subscribe@indiana.edu to subscribe
@avalonmediasys
facebook.com/avalonmediasys
• Or contact Jon Dunn: jwd@iu.edu
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