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Avalon at the University of Virginia
The document discusses the University of Virginia's plans to implement the Avalon digital asset management system to provide access to audiovisual materials. Key points include: - Avalon will be rolled out in July 2014 to allow access by 39 colleges and universities. Content will steadily increase through Fall 2014. - Implementation will require half an FTE AV conservator, a quarter FTE software engineer, and other technical resources over a 6 month period. - The initial production setup will use a virtual machine for Avalon and related software like Fedora and Solr. Additional features are needed like time-based access restrictions and custom thumbnails. - Ongoing involvement with the Avalon community is important to promptly
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- 1. AVALON at the University Of Virginia
- 2. Use Cases ●Current oAccess to licensed AV resources oPreservation/Access to rare/unique AV materials oAccess to recordings of lecture series’ ●Impending oConcert Recordings ●Considered oElectronic Reserves
- 3. Current Media “Solutions” ●Hosted solutions oKaltura oShared Shelf ●Local “systems” ofiles somewhere oMARC in SIRSI oSolr records presented in blacklight
- 4. Implementation Timeframe ●July2014 Production roll-out for VIVA consortium oshibboleth access to up to 39 colleges and universities at 55 campuses ●Fall 2014 Avalon → Blacklight pipeline ●Fall 2014 steady increase in content ●Fall 2014 Master File Integration with Fedora 4 ●Spring 2015 AP Trust integration ●Spring 2015 Course Reserves (maybe)
- 5. Implementation Resources ½FTE AV Conservator with project manager hat ¼ FTE Software Engineer Sprinkling of UX engineers Dash of emerging technologies consultation Healthy heaping of Dev-Ops heavy lifting Bake for 6 months
- 6. Production Setup AvalonVM Rails (RVM) Fedora Solr Transcoding Hardware Matterhorn F5 Load Balancer Firewall Hardware Streaming Red5 Hardware Streaming Red5
- 7. Ideal Production Setup Avalon VM Rails (RVM) Transcoding Hardware Matterhorn F5 Load Balancer Firewall Hardware Streaming Red5 Hardware Streaming Red5 Shared Fedora Box Shared Solr Box Second Matterhorn Worker Box
- 8. Needed features ●Time-basedaccess restrictions ●Custom thumbnails ●Collection-specific handling of master files ●Specification of offset in URLs ●EBU-Core RDF metadata
- 9. Future of theCommunity Want Need to stay in sync with the community ●prompt upgrades ●push changes upstream