Hydra Time-Based Media Working Session 2013-06-06

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