Jon W. Dunn presented "Avalon at Indiana University" as part of the "Avalon Media System: Implementation and Community" session at the 2014 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum on October 28, 2014.

1. Avalon at Indiana University

2. IU Context
• History of audio/video digitization
• Legacy systems for delivery
• Eight campuses
• New demands
• Media Digitization and
Preservation Initiative
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3. Legacy Systems
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4. IU Deployment Environment
• Virtual server in UITS VMware
environment for Fedora and Avalon
• 4 CPU cores, 16GB RAM, 1GB disk
• Physical server for transcoding
• 12 cores, 120GB RAM, 8TB local disk
• UITS Adobe Media Server environment
• Shared SAN filesystem
• Pilots since Fall 2013
• In production October 2014
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5. IU Production Instance
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6. Archival Film
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7. Omeka Online Exhibit:
World War II Propaganda Frilms
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8. Media Within Archival Collections
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9. Online Publishing:
Ethnomusicology Multimedia
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10. Institute for Juvenile Court
and Corrections Research
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11. Specialized Avalon Instance:
Kelley School of Business
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12. Future Migrations
• Video e-reserves
• LTI integration with Sakai, Canvas
• Licensed educational video
• LDAP for campus restriction
• Variations: music audio
• Pedagogical, annotation tools
• Media Digitization and Preservation
Initiative
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13. IU Media Digitization and
Preservation Initiative
mdpi.iu.edu 13

14. Thank you!
Email: jwd@iu.edu
IU Avalon instance:
media.dlib.indiana.edu
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