avalon at stanford university libraries
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Bess Sadler and Hannah Frost presented "Avalon at Stanford University Libraries" as part of the "Avalon Media System: Implementation and Community" session at the 2014 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum on October 28, 2014.TRANSCRIPT
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Avalonat Stanford University Libraries
Bess Sadler – Manager for Application Development
Hannah Frost - Services Manager
Stanford Digital Repository
Stanford Media Preservation Lab
DLF Atlanta October 28, 2014
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• Maintain long-term access to at-risk materials through high-quality reformatting– In-house whenever possible
• Support collection development
• Promote use of media in teaching and research
• Integrate with digital library– Services– Technology
• Develop expertise, best practices, community
Objectives of SUL’s Media Preservation Program
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Michael in Video Lab
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Maintain long-term access to at-risk materials through high-quality reformatting
Support collection development
Promote use of media in teaching and research
Integrate with digital library✔ Services☐ Technology: discovery and delivery
Develop expertise, best practices, community
Objectives of SUL’s Media Preservation Program
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69 Itemsrequested in
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Patron Digitization Requests: Rising
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Top Collection Websites: Media
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Media Access Working Group
Recommendations
• Augment systems and tools that – Reduce ingest backlog
– Promote discovery and use
• Wrangle the rights
• Gather more metrics to inform future decision making
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Keys to a Solution at Stanford Libraries
• Technology– Open source
– Open minded and flexible
• Community– Vibrant
– Digital library-centric
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Avalon at Stanford
• Meets all our basic needs– Functional, technical, philosophical
– Tested by Media Access Working Group
– Supported by Management
• Hiring a Media Infrastructure Engineer– Funded through a 2-year collection project
– Work starts ASAP!
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What are your main use cases for
Avalon?
• Deposit of media produced by (with examples)– Students: documentary film program, engineering and product
design course projects, – Faculty: Observational research, fine arts performances, – Online learning initiatives: lectures, course reserves– Administration: Office of Development, Oral history program,
campus events
• Delivery of reformatted media produced in digital preservation workflows– Systematic reformatting of rare/unique archival and commercial
items at SMPL (13,000 and counting)– Satisfying requests by researchers (remote and on-site) for
online access to collection material
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What other media solutions do you
have in place that Avalon replaces or
complements? • Will replace existing streaming infrastructure
(wowza) that is outdated and not integrated with SUL’s digital library discovery environment
• Will complement outsourced CDN services used for boutique collection web sites
• Will complement current Drupal infrastructure and future Spotlight exhibits, where curators and other librarians promote media collections and services through web sites
• May play into course management system currently in transition (from Sakai to Canvas)
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Where are you on your
implementation or evaluation?
• Evaluation is complete, including a test installation of Avalon Release 2 in Fall 2013
• Currently interviewing for Media Infrastructure Engineer to lead the design, installation, and integration (2 year project starting approx. January 2015)
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What staff resources have been
necessary to implement Avalon at
your institution?
• Parts of
– Product owner
– Service manager
– Software developer
– Infrastructure engineer
– System / Storage Administrator
– DevOps Systems configuration
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What features do you most need
that are not currently in Avalon?
• Support for Wowza streaming server• Support for Open Annotations• Support for transcripts/captions: synchronization and
full-text search• Support for PBCore metadata (v2)• Integration with Fedora 4• IP-based access control• Hooks for capturing special license terms• Re-architecting Avalon as components that can be built
into a digital library ecosystem, instead of a tightly integrated out of the box solution
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What would you like the Avalon
community to look like in the future?
• A healthy cadre of core developers/maintainers; the media space is always evolving and Avalon will need to keep up
• A vibrant, connected user community that reflects the requirements of scholars who use media in research and teaching
• Vendors who can help small installations with local implementation or offer hosted services