What parts of Hydra Media functionality could be abstracted / extracted / gemified / etc. in such a was as to make them easier to use across heads / implementations / institutions?

ANSWER: see below, but build a viewer abstraction first...

DISCOVERY

Honor access rights
Delivery/Streaming
Viewer abstraction **** (do this first)
- give options for playback
- make synced transcripts easy to provide
- pluggability
- Real-time (delivery) transcoding negotiation * has server and infrastructure implications
Gallery view
Segmented discovery
- Transcript (time encoded)
- Navigate composite works (opera) by segments (act/scene)
Embeddable player for external sites (with auth wrapping)
User selected clips
- User selects start and end times within asset
- for playback / embedding in same and external sites
- for requesting uncompressed clips of original datastream
Temporary handles (one-time-links, 30-day links, i.e. link with expiration, lease, reverse embargo)
Lease (reverse embargo / expiration) w/graceful behavior (not necessarily just for video)

INGEST

Transcoding / Derivatives / Pre-segmentation
Characterization
Metadata Curation
Rights (license) management
Access (managment and visibility) management
Index transcripts / translations
Lease (reverse embargo / expiration) w/graceful behavior

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