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Arbil

Arbil 2.6, for editing and managing CMDI metadata

This manual was last updated in November 2015

The latest version can be found at: http://http://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/arbil/

Anastasios Vogiatzis (June 2012)

Claudia Zabeo (December 2012)

Janna Voelpel (September 2013)

Francesca Bechis (July 2014)

Steffen Kaiser (November 2015)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1. General Information
1.2. Overview
1.3. Work flow
1.4. Arbil icons
2. Starting Arbil
2.1. Language selection
3. Set-up
3.1. Remote Corpus
3.1.1. Tree structure view
3.1.2. Adding and removing Remote Locations
3.1.3. Add to tree root
3.1.4. Viewing Remote Corpus Information
3.2. Local Corpus
3.2.1. Import to Local Corpus
3.2.2. Creating profile instances
3.2.3. Creating (and describing) hierarchical collections
3.2.4. Local Corpus Storage Directory
3.3. Working Directories
3.4. Favourites
3.5. Managing Selected Profiles
4. Editing the structure of an instance
4.1. Adding components and/or elements
4.2. Adding more field elements
4.3. Adding resource files to a metadata document
4.4. Moving instances
4.5. Deleting linked instances
4.6. Saving changes
5. Editing the metadata
5.1. Editing one cell
5.2. Attributes
5.3. Long field editor
5.4. Delete field(s)
5.5. Editing multiple cells
5.5.1. Find and Replace
5.6. Editing All Metadata of a Subnode
5.7. Customizing Column Views
5.8. Highlighting cells with the same value
5.9. Track Table Selection in Tree
6. Searching
6.1. Searching Local Corpus
6.2. Display of Search Results
7. Exporting and Importing data
7.1. Exporting data from Arbil
7.1.1. More export options
7.1.2. Export process details
7.2. Importing data into Arbil
7.3. Using an External Editor
7.4. External application
8. Exiting Arbil
9. Shortcut Keys
10. Technical details
10.1. Custom File types Configuration
10.2. Templates
10.3. Plugins
10.4. Custom logging configuration
A. CMDI ecosystem
A.1. Creating profiles and components in the Component Registry
A.1.1. Login
A.1.2. Features of the Component Registry
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