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IU Libraries receives $1.2 million grant to develop ability to search digitized files
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.
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Avalon on the Road! Samvera Connect 2018 and DLF Forum 2018
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.
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)

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Avalon announces the release of 6.4.4
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
https://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/display/VarVideo/For+System+Administrators
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Avalon Spotlight: Univ. of Alberta Libraries and Chris Want's Contributions to Avalon
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Avalon Office Hours to Begin August 28th and Run Weekly through October
The Avalon Team invites you to join us for Office Hours every week on Tuesdays from August 28th to October 30th. We're currently piloting a program to enable anyone with an interest in Samvera to spend some time with our team to discuss all things Avalon Media System.
For full information, click here.
When
Join us on Tuesdays at 2:00 Eastern/ 11:00 Pacific beginning on August 28th
Where
We'll have both Slack and BlueJeans webconference options available
And, two weeks per month we'll feature special a special focus
Focus on Deployment and Support
August 28th and September 25th
Avalon Community Tech Lead Chris Colvard and Phuong Dinh will be available to discuss Avalon implementation and management & maintenance of your Avalon System.
Focus on Avalon Roadmap and Community
September 4th and October 2nd
Product owners David Schober and Jon Cameron will discuss work on the Avalon Roadmap, what's going on in the development cycles, and what we're looking at next for Avalon.
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Avalon 6.4.3 Now Available
- Files ingested from a dropbox are properly handled when the masterfile management strategy is set to 'move' #2903
- Batch ingest emails are sent successfully, even when items are deleted by users before the job completes #2892
- Manifest files are deleted after reading and before any processing has happened to avoid race conditions or other errors #2919
For any questions or assistance, please email us using our contact form.
or join our discussion: avalon-discuss-l@list.indiana.edu
Or find us on Slack at:
Avalon Slack team: 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
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OHMS Now Available For Avalon
Avalon Media System is proud to announce the successful completion of integrations between Avalon, a Samvera solution bundle for audio and video management, and OHMS, the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer.
Libraries and archives host rich collections that include audio and video recordings of oral histories and interviews, often first-hand accounts of events important to cultural memory. While many of these recordings have languished in formats that made them inaccessible to researchers and, in many cases, the public, the combination of OHMS and Avalon can make these oral histories accessible and manageable, leveraging open technologies designed specifically for the specific needs of libraries and archives.
The integrations, developed by AVP (formerly AVPreserve), will enable media managers to use the latest version of OHMS to index or connect interview transcripts with video or audio media, managed and stored in the robust Avalon Media System via Avalon's JavaScript player API. Paired with the powerful time-based search, discovery and navigation features in OHMS, the final product will create a package complete with transcripts and menus derived from user-created metadata, ready for display.
Douglas Boyd of Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries states “Indiana University is the first institution besides the University of Kentucky to make a significant contribution to the OHMS code. We are always looking for ways to make OHMS a more effective solution and the incorporation of Avalon represents significant step forward for OHMS and Avalon.”
This work was supported by the Indiana University Office of the Bicentennial as part of Indiana University’s Bicentennial Oral History Project. Avalon Media System is developed by Indiana University Libraries and Northwestern University Libraries, with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. OHMS is developed and managed at the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries and was made open source and free through support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
For more information regarding Avalon and OHMS, please contact Avalon at: http://www.avalonmediasystem.org/contact
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Survey: Avalon Training Needs
Avalon is seeking your input to help us create Avalon Media System specific training.
You can tell us what areas would be of the most use for your team when it comes to training, and what works best for you in terms of delivery.
Just fill out this brief survey to give us some ideas. The survey should only take about 5-10 minutes to complete, and if you have additional ideas for what we could offer, we're all ears.
We'll follow up soon to let you know our plans!
If you'd like to discuss training in more detail or have other topics of discussion, as always, please use the following channels
- email the list-serve at: avalon-discuss-l@list.indiana.edu
- if you're a Samvera Community member, just look for us on Slack at #avalon
- or contact the Community Manager directly at: ryan dot steans at northwestern dot edu
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Avalon Sprint Review #153
Jon Cameron (Indiana) hosts and Adam Arling (Northwestern) stars in Sprint Demo #153
See our first public demo of the IIIF stand-alone player
Runtime: 6 minutes, 30 seconds
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Avalon Forum - June 13th at 4:00 PM
Avalon will host the second Avalon monthly forum on Wednesday, June 13th at 4:00 Eastern.
Topics will include:
- Northwestern University – Avalon for e-Reserves Media Distribution (Molly Zolnay and Natalie Pelster)
- Avalon and IIIF for Video (Adam Arling and Brian Keese)
The Forum will last approx.. 30 minutes.
If you can’t make it, we’ll be posting the presentation video to the Avalon Demo site within the days following. (Our first Forum is here.)
To join the Meeting:
https://bluejeans.com/730726712
To join via Room System:
Video Conferencing System: bjn.vc -or-199.48.152.152
Meeting ID : 730726712
To join via phone :
1) Dial:
+1.408.740.7256 (United States)
+1.888.240.2560 (US Toll Free)
+1.408.317.9253 (Alternate number)
(see all numbers - http://bluejeans.com/numbers)
2) Enter Conference ID : 730726712
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