Poster presentation and demo of Avalon Media System at AMIA 2013 (November 6-9, 2013). Presented by Stefan Elnabli of Northwestern University.

1. Stefan Elnabli
Digital Collections
Northwestern University Library
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What is Avalon?
avalonmediasystem.org
Avalon Media System is a freely available tool
that enables libraries and archives to easily
create, manage and provide controlled online
@AvalonMediaSys
facebook.com/AvalonMediaSys
teaching, learning and research. Funded in
and Library Services, Avalon is the product
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.
University and Northwestern University,
2.0 Release Functionality
• Playback on desktop browsers and
mobile devices (iOS, Android)
• Manual or batch file uploading, transcoding, and
Teaching with Avalon
Students and Researchers
• Red5 and Adobe Flash Media Server support
• Faceted discovery for browse and search via Blacklight
• Stream-level security for desktop and mobile
• User roles with hierarchical permissions model
• Custom thumbnail creation
• New media player for better playback experience
• Automated system monitoring
Try out Avalon
Demo Server
http://www.avalonmediasystem.org/try-out-avalon
Students and researchers enjoy the benefits of
within media items. Structural metadata allows for
groups or keep them private
Teaching faculty can create clips, playlists, and
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.
with
course management systems and library
systems ease the process of sharing
items safely with courses.
Why
Avalon?
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.