Indiana University, in partnership with Northwestern University, has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support work on Avalon development and community building through January, 2017. In 2011, Indiana University and Northwestern University began to develop Avalon, a freely available open source software system that enables academic libraries and archives to easily provide online access to their video and audio collections. This was made possible in part by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Learn About the Avalon Project
Avalon 5.0 is now available! Learn what's new and try it out!
The best place to start learning is the Avalon Media System project website.
To join one of the project mailing lists or to connect with the project in other ways
- Visit the Avalon Connect page
Project background documents are linked below.
- Mellon Grant Proposal Narrative
- IMLS Grant Proposal One-Page Abstract
- IMLS Grant Proposal Narrative
- IU press release, March 10, 2015: IU Libraries and partners receive $931,000 from Mellon Foundation grants
- IU press release, November 30, 2011: IU receives grant to create software system for video and audio collections
- Original IMLS Planning Grant Site
For more information, please contact the Project Directors:
Technical Documentation
For partners and others wanting to try out the system or install it.
- Try out Avalon on a test server
- Avalon Release Roadmap
- Download a virtual machine image of Avalon, or install it manually
- Quick links to Avalon technical documentation
- Supported Browsers and Platforms
For developers
Other tools and places
Old documents, to be organized
Development Partners/Funders
