June 2016

Sprint 102

Jun 24, 2016

The Avalon team's demo for sprint 102 -- showing our new waffle.io board, walking through our current design for a playlist marker and demonstrating RuboCop in our development branch -- is now available: https://pawpaw.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/avalon:9641

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Announcing Avalon 5.0

Deborah Cane

Jun 13, 2016

Announcing Avalon 5.0

Indiana University and Northwestern University are pleased to announce Avalon Media System 5.0.

Release 5.0 adds the following capabilities:

· Organization and Sharing Features

o Create private or shareable Playlists

o Add whole audio and video files or clips to playlists

· Content Ingest API

o A lightweight API for importing metadata and links to existing derivatives into Avalon.

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Community Development Assessment Update

Meenasarani Linde Murugan

Jun 9, 2016

In the past few months we have not only located ten media researchers at Northwestern University, but also conducted our first round of observations and interviews. With the diary study a few weeks underway as well, we wanted to share some of what we're learning so far about how academics use media in their research, and how Avalon could better serve their needs.