1. Jon Dunn, Indiana University Marcel LaFlamme, Rice University
Ecologies of Mutuality: How Journals, Libraries, and Scholarly Societies Can Move Open Forward
Jon Dunn, Indiana University
Marcel LaFlamme, Rice University

2. Avalon Media System
Open source software that enables libraries and archives to provide access to audio and video collections.
Goals: easily installable and configurable; serve a variety of use cases and institutions; sustainable development.
Development partnership established in 2011.

3. Why Avalon?
Existing repository systems don’t work well for time-based media.
Issues: integration with streaming servers; hard to support time- based navigation; difficulties in integrating access control
Existing media systems don’t work well with repositories.
Issues: focus on short-term access for teaching and learning; limited metadata and access control capabilities; integration with preservation workflows
Most repositories can deposit AV but the UX for ingesting and delivering is not optimal because you are providing the file to the user as a download. IF they are being used with a streaming system, they aren’t providing a secure access and can’t handle authorization.
There are lots of delivery options, like MAM’s or online video tools like Kaltura but they are more concerned with immediate access. They aren’t concerned with long-term media access, they don’t support Library metadata standards, and they aren’t designed to support long-term preservation activities.

4. Legacy Systems

5. Avalon Use Cases Archival collections Licensed audio/video collections
Audio/video e-reserves
Mass digitization
Publishing

6. Cultural Anthropology
The journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
Established in 1986, it has become one of the most highly cited journals in the discipline.
In 2014, the journal went open access and is self-published on the CA website:

7. An ecology in the making
What
Who
Why
2015: new editors of CA announce Sound + Vision: articles with embedded audio and video content.
Priorities: preservation, format migration. Building an infrastructure with our future readers in mind.
A scan of existing and emerging platforms: interoperability with our legacy site, 2016 rollout.
Who to partner with, given our rotating editorial office? In-kind support from Duke as precedent.
What we needed: media functionality, file hosting (preferably long-term).
What we hoped to offer: onetime grant from the AAA, to be used for Avalon development.
April 2016: grant funded!

8. Why was CA an attractive partner for IU Libraries?
Avalon
Willing partner; explore new use cases and potential markets; push research applications of audiovisual content. IU
Investment in new publishing models; area of strength for IU; complementary to other projects: Museum Anthropology Review, Open Folklore; learn lessons to support other multimedia journals
Why was CA an attractive partner for IU Libraries?

9. Sound + Vision 1.0

10. Sound + Vision 1.0

11. Sound + Vision 1.0

12. Avalon Developments Recent Support for Fedora 4 Playlists Player API
Hosted SaaS pilot with Lyrasis
Ongoing
Move to Hyrax
IIIF AV
Integration with Archivematica

13. Ecological collapse?

14. Techniques of mutuality
Societies
Libraries
Individuals
Unlearn the vendor-client relationship fostered by commercial publishers.
Take risks and build feedback mechanisms for learning from them.
Recognize the value of a diverse landscape.
Be open to partnerships beyond your institution if they align with priorities.
Be patient with internal politics and be flexible within principled limits.
Stay mission-driven with what you create.
Celebrate the wins when you get them.
Build relationships that outlast particular projects and institutional roles.
An inside-outside strategy: reform and exodus.