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Researcher Marcel LaFlamme will discuss how the scholarly journal "Cultural Anthropology" utilizes Avalon to supplement and support written content with audio and video, sharing ideas how Avalon can bring new life to your scholarly publications.

Avalon has been working with Digirati toward the development of the Timeliner tool.  This feature will enable folks to create a visual representation of audio files.  Examples of use cases include music faculty who wish to show learners how music is broken down into components and parts via visualization on the timeline of an audio file.

Avalon Demo #173

• Structural Metadata Editor
• Improvements
• Refactors
• Validations

See the new Structural Metadata Editor with waveform, HTML structural metadata trees, and much, much more!

Join us on March 13th, 4:00 Eastern/ 1:00 PM Pacific

TOPICS:

• Using Avalon with a journal: Cultural Anthropology (Marcel LaFlamme)
• First Look at the Timeliner Tool: Visualizing Music in a Linear Fashion (Maria Whitaker)

To connect to the Avalon Forum during a live event, click here.  

Researcher Marcel LaFlamme will discuss how the scholarly journal "Cultural Anthropology" utilizes Avalon to supplement and support written content with audio and video, sharing ideas how Avalon can bring new life to your scholarly publications.

Avalon has been working with Digirati toward the development of the Timeliner tool.  This feature will enable folks to create a visual representation of audio files.  Examples of use cases include music faculty who wish to show learners how music is broken down into components and parts via visualization on the timeline of an audio file.

As always, we'll be live and we hope you can join us to learn more and ask plenty of questions.  If you can't make it, we'll be placing the video online at the Avalon Forum Tab which links to our Avalon Demo site.

We held our Avalon Forum for February on the 13th.  As always, we’re making the recording available via Avalon Media System.

We invite you to view the February Forum which covers the following:

• University of Houston and Avalon - Emily Vinson, Audiovisual Archivist
• Structural Metadata Editor - Jon Cameron, Dananji Withana - Indiana Univ./ Adam Arling - Northwestern Univ.

And, as always, I do a bit of housekeeping.

You can learn more about the Forum or watch prior Avalon Forum sessions on the Avalon Forum page. 

Avalon Media System will hold our February Forum on 02/13/2019 at 4:00 PM Easter/ 1:00 Pacific

The Forum is a 30 minute webinar in which we discuss the latest at Avalon, invite our colleagues to discuss what’s going on locally with their installation, and provide a development update.

This month we’re featuring:

• University of Houston and Avalon - Emily Vinson, Audiovisual Archivist
• Structural Metadata Editor - Jon Cameron, Dananji Withana - Indiana Univ./ Adam Arling - Northwestern Univ.

Emily will share details of how Avalon is implemented at UH, their use cases and how they’d like to develop their use of Avalon. 

Our Avalon team members will talk about the new Structural Metadata Editor, which will enable users to create navigation within any Avalon media.

And, of course, we’ll have some housekeeping announcements and open the floor for questions and queries.

To connect to the Avalon Forum during a live event, click here.  

To view prior Avalon Forum recordings (via Avalon!), click here.

We look forward to seeing you at the Avalon Forum! 

On January 15th, Avalon Community Manager, Ryan Steans, invited Avalon users, those curious about Avalon and beyond, to join in and think about Avalon not just as an open source resource, but as a community.

This 30 minute presentation covered a wide number of issues from how to first engage to how to participate in development.

Topics include:  

• So, you want to check out Avalon? – what folks new to Avalon can do to try the technology
• Let’s Talk! – Avalon Slack and Avalon List Serves
• Online and In Person – Avalon Office Hours and Avalon Forum
• One of Us! –  How you can assist in Avalon development
• What we’re doing in the coming year – training modules, co-development and more!

To view the video:  click here

To view the slide deck from this presentation:  click here

To learn more about the Avalon Forum and to view prior forum presentations:  click here

For more information or any questions, email me at:  http://www.avalonmediasystem.org/contact

Join us on December 12th at 4:00, Eastern! (1:00 Pacific)

Topics will include:  

• Upgrade of Avalon at Univ. of Virginia with Mike Durbin
• Development efforts in batch upload with Avalon and WGBH with Sadie Roosa and Chris Colvard

You can learn more about the upcoming Forum under: Events or The Forum Link.  

To connect to the Avalon Forum during a live event, click here.  

Indiana University has received a $1.2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in conjunction with New York Public Library, University of Texas at Austin and information management consultant AVP in order to develop a scalable Audiovisual Metadata Platform, known as AMP, to generate searchable time-stamped descriptions for audiovisual content.  

Read more at the Indiana University website.

In October 2018, Avalon Media System team members attended two conferences - Samvera Connect 2018 in Salt Lake City and Digital Library Federation Forum 2018 in Las Vegas.

Samvera Connect 2018

Each year, Samvera Connect provides the Samvera Community with 3 days of conference and a day of workshops to help coordinate and drive the Samvera technologies and communities forward.  This year the event was held at the University of Utah's Marriott Library.  

Members of the Indiana and Northwestern University teams attended workshops on Tuesday October 9th.  Community Tech Lead Chris Colvard and developer Brian Keese (both from Indiana) led a workshop on this day entitled "Enhanced media playback in a Hyrax app using Avalon components".  The session was well attended, and provided food for thought for Avalon users and other Samvera community members considering time based media in their Samvera installations.

Other events related to Avalon (abstracts from the conference)

The Avalon Team is happy to announce the release of Avalon 6.4.4

What can you expect in this release?

Updates and Changes

• Embeds are now able to be tracked with Google Analytics - track views of your media played locally in Avalon as well as where you've embedded it in external websites
• CAPTCHA configurability added to the comments page
• Minor updates to Avalon Intercom 

Bug Fixes

• Resolved issues with file paths that arise in certain system configurations
• Rubyzip dependency updated to avoid security vulnerability

Avalon 6.4.4 is now available for download at the Avalon GitHub repository.  

Click here to download and to learn more.

For any questions or assistance, please email us at:  avalon-discuss-l@list.indiana.edu

Or find us on Slack at: samvera.slack.com/messages/avalon

Joining a Slack team requires an invitation, but anyone can generate an automatic invite to the Samvera Community slack channel using the following form: Samvera Slack invite

 
 
For upgrade documentation:  https://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/display/VarVideo/For+System+Administrators
 
Those interested in exploring Avalon should contact us at:  http://www.avalonmediasystem.org/contact
 
Our Github:  https://github.com/avalonmediasystem/