Poster presentation and demo of Avalon Media System at DLF 2013 (November 4-6, 2013). Presented by Jon W Dunn and Julie Hardesty of Indiana University and Andrea Zielke of Northwestern University.

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What is Avalon Media System?
Avalon 2.0
The architecture of Avalon is designed to be modular and extensible in
order to support integration into and with other academic systems,
including integrated library systems, learning management systems, and
eventually, scholarly annotation and research tools.
Integrations
ILS
LMS,
websites
Authentication
Authorization
Archival
Storage
Users
Avalon Media System
Hydrant Rails App
OmniAuth
CanCan
Fedora
Hydra
Head
Solr
Media Player
(mediaelement.js)
Blacklight
Matterhorn
Rubyhorn
Media Server
Search
Browse
View
Ingest
Describe
Manage
Desktop,
Mobile
All Users
Browser,
Drop box
Collection
Staff
Andrea Zielke
Northwestern University Library
azielke@northwestern.edu
What’s next for Avalon?
Avalon software releases are scheduled every 3 months. This schedule of
features is subject to change as more input of required functionality from
the community helps to shape Avalon.
The Avalon Media System is a robust, fully open source solution for
curating and providing online access to digital audio and video collections
in libraries and archives. The system is being developed collaboratively by
the libraries at Indiana University and Northwestern University, in
partnership with ten additional institutions that have committed resources
for testing, evaluation, and feedback.
The system leverages a number of other open source tools. In addition to
the Hydra framework and Blacklight discovery interface, audio and video
processing and playback capabilities are based on technology from the
Opencast Matterhorn project, metadata persistence is provided by the
Fedora digital repository system, and metadata indexing is provided by
Apache Solr.
Jon W. Dunn
Indiana University Libraries
jwd@iu.edu
Avalon 2.0, released in October 2013, provides:
• A new media player, based on mediaelement.js, that works in desktop
and mobile web browsers
• A hierarchical permissions model that supports a flexible approach to
collections-based content management
• Ingest and management functionality built using the Ruby on Railsbased Hydra framework
• Faceted discovery for browse and search via Blacklight
• Manual or batch file uploading, transcoding and metadata (MODS)
• Authentication (LDAP, CAS, OmniAuth)
• Authorization – share resources with individuals and groups or keep
them private
• Stream-level security for desktop and mobile
• Integration with Red5 and Adobe Flash Media Server
• Customized thumbnails by taking a “snapshot” or specifying a timepoint
• Support for automated system monitoring, includes an About page
• Migration tools to move content and user groups from Avalon 1.0 to 2.0
For more information
Try out Avalon! Request access to our demo server or download installers
at http://www.avalonmediasystem.org/try-out-avalon. Conduct a pilot at
your institution – visit our website for more information.
avalonmediasystem.org
facebook.com/AvalonMediaSys
@AvalonMediaSys
Avalon deployment scenario
Avalon will be deployable in a wide variety of arrangements, operating in
conjunction with existing integrated library systems, repositories, lecture
capture systems, streaming servers, and other video environments, or in a
standalone configuration.
Project information
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and
Library Services.