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Avalon Forum for February 2019 Now Available!
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.
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Avalon February Forum - 02/13
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!
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January Forum now available! How to Join the Avalon Community!
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
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Avalon Forum - December 12, 2018 at 4:00 Eastern!
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.
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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