Avalon at Indiana University

IU Context

• History of audio/video digitization

• Legacy systems for delivery

• Eight campuses

• New demands

• Media Digitization and

Preservation Initiative

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Legacy Systems

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IU Deployment Environment

• Virtual server in UITS VMware environment for Fedora and Avalon

• 4 CPU cores, 16GB RAM, 1GB disk

• Physical server for transcoding

• 12 cores, 120GB RAM, 8TB local disk

• UITS Adobe Media Server environment

• Shared SAN filesystem

• Pilots since Fall 2013

• In production October 2014

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IU Production Instance

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Archival Film

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Omeka Online Exhibit:

World War II Propaganda Frilms

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Media Within Archival Collections

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Online Publishing:

Ethnomusicology Multimedia

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Institute for Juvenile Court

and Corrections Research

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Specialized Avalon Instance:

Kelley School of Business

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Future Migrations

• Video e-reserves

• LTI integration with Sakai, Canvas

• Licensed educational video

• LDAP for campus restriction

• Variations: music audio

• Pedagogical, annotation tools

• Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative

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IU Media Digitization and

Preservation Initiative

mdpi.iu.edu13

Thank you!

Email: jwd@iu.edu

IU Avalon instance:

media.dlib.indiana.edu

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