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Building for Others and Ourselves: Avalon Media System
The document outlines Avalon, an open-source digital audio/video management system designed for libraries and archives, focused on enhancing online access to audio and video collections. It emphasizes community feedback for improvements, including the need for integration with Learning Management Systems (LMS). Additionally, it discusses installation, configuration, and customization strategies to support diverse user needs.
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- 1. BUILDING FOR OTHERS AND OURSELVES! Michael Klein & Julie Rudder Northwestern University Library
- 2. 2 What isAvalon?
- 3. 3 What isAvalon? an open source project a digital audio/video management and delivery system a product focused on needs of libraries and archives
- 4. 4 What isAvalon? an open source project a digital audio/video management and delivery system a product focused on needs of libraries and archives Northwestern’s Avalon Pilot
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- 6. 6 (some) AvalonGoals create an open source system to enable libraries and archives to provide online access to video and audio collections leverage existing technologies, where feasible communicate and market the project broadly to increase awareness and grow the community of users and developers
- 7. 7 development partnerssince 2012 & funding from the: Avalon Community
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- 10. 10 Community feedbackis important, so we ask... how are we doing? what is missing? what else do you need? Partner Mee3ng last October in Bloomington
- 11. 11 One majortheme we heard was “ We need integration with Learning Management Systems”
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- 13. 13 Requirements ifwe were doing this alone: “LTI has to work with Sakai”
- 14. 14 Requirements withyou in mind: “LTI should work well with any system that has LTI support”
- 15. 15 Blackboard viewof Avalon LTI
- 16. 16 Blackboard viewof Avalon LTI
- 17. 17 Avalon courseview via LTI
- 18. 18 Embedding Avalonresources: Embed code in Avalon view
- 19. 19 Wordpress view:restricted Avalon resource
- 20. 20 Permalinks NU:Handle.Net Handles
- 21. 21 Permalinks IU:Internal PURLs
- 22. 22 Installation manyindividual components potentially spread over multiple servers each component has its own configuration requirements
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- 25. 25 Configuration vs.Code LTI: Configuration Permalinks: Code User Authentication: Some of each
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- 32. Integration with: • LMS • Websites • Authn/Authz • Archival Storage • Permalinks Technology Stack
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- 36. 36 So withyou in mind, we build... Admin-friendly installers With abstraction and customization Based on shared priorities
- 37. 37 Multiple Distributionsfor Different Needs Puppet Manifest VagrantVM Installer OVA PortableVirtual Machine
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