Browsable Corpus (BC)
| Introduction | References | Corpus Structure | Corpus Information |
| Document Information | Header Information | Metadata Overview |
Last update: 30-Aug-2000
The Browsable Corpus concept was introduced at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) to make resource discovery easier by defining meta-descriptions for language resources. The structure of linked meta-descriptions can be browsed and searched.
A Browsable Corpus: accessing linguistic resources the easy way (Broeder, Brugman, Russel & Wittenburg).
| Corpus | Groups corpora and/or sessions together | ||||||
| Name | Name of the grouping | ||||||
| Level | Not used anymore | ||||||
| Description | Description of the grouping | ||||||
| 0..N | FDescription | Provides for (legacy) HTML information files | |||||
| 0..N | Infofile | Reference to a file/URL providing relevant information (usually legacy metadata) about the current grouping | |||||
| Project_Controller | Responsible for the corpus data | ||||||
| Name | Name of the entity responsible for the corpus data | ||||||
| Description | Description of the responsible entity | ||||||
| Infofile | Reference to a file/URL providing information about the responsible entity | ||||||
| Content | Describes important aspects about the content of the corpus | ||||||
| Keywords | Keywords about the content | ||||||
| Languages | Groups the languages used in the conversation | ||||||
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1..N |
Language | The language used in the conversation | |||||
| Description | Describes specifics about the language used in the conversation | ||||||
| Infofile | Reference to a file/URL providing information about the language used in the conversation | ||||||
| Description | Description of the content of the corpus | ||||||
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0..N |
Infofile | Reference to a file/URL providing information about the contents of the corpus | |||||
| Participants | Groups together information about the persons identified in the corpus | ||||||
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1..N |
Person | Gives information about an identified person | |||||
| Name | Name of the person | ||||||
| Fullname | Person's full name | ||||||
| Sex | Person's gender | ||||||
| Role | Person's role in the conversation | ||||||
| Code | Person's unique identifier | ||||||
| Age | Person's age | ||||||
| Born | Person's date of birth | ||||||
| Relation | ? | ||||||
| Keys | Contains a set of attribute-value pairs | ||||||
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0..N |
Key | Attribute-value pair | |||||
| Name | Contains the attribute label name | ||||||
| Value | Contains the attribute's value | ||||||
| Description | Description of the participants | ||||||
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0..N |
Infofile | Reference to a file/URL providing information about the participants | |||||
| Keys | Contains a set of attribute-value pairs | ||||||
| 0..N | Key | Attribute-value pair | |||||
| Name | Contains the attribute label name | ||||||
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Value | Contains the attribute's value | |||||
| Session | ? | ||||||
| Name | **** see corpus **** | ||||||
| Level | **** see corpus **** | ||||||
| Date | **** see corpus **** | ||||||
| Description | **** see corpus **** | ||||||
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0..N |
FDescription | **** see corpus **** | |||||
| Access | Contains juridical access rights to the recording | ||||||
| Date | Contains the date of when the rights were established | ||||||
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0..N |
Infofile | **** see corpus **** | |||||
| Project_Controller | **** see corpus **** | ||||||
| Content | **** see corpus **** | ||||||
| Participants | **** see corpus **** | ||||||
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0..N |
Tape | Contains a possible reference to the original media tape | |||||
| Description | Description of the media tape | ||||||
| ID | Gives a unique identifier to locate the tape in the archive | ||||||
| Position | Indicates the position on the tape where the session resides | ||||||
| Format | Describes the media format on which the recording is made | ||||||
| Keys | **** see corpus **** | ||||||
| Files | Groups together all the files of the session | ||||||
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0..N |
Transcription-File | Groups information about a transcription file | |||||
| Remark | Description of the transcription file | ||||||
| Src | Points to the location of the transcription file | ||||||
| Format | Indicates how the file should be interpreted | ||||||
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0..N |
Label_File | Gives a sequence of markers which relate to the media file fragment | |||||
| Remark | Description of the label file | ||||||
| Src | Points to the location of the label file | ||||||
| Format | Indicated how the file should be interpreted | ||||||
| Start | Gives information about the start position of media file fragment | ||||||
| Duration | Gives information about the duration of the media file fragment | ||||||
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0..N |
Media-File | Groups information about a media file | |||||
| Remark | Description of the media file | ||||||
| Src | Points to the location of the media file | ||||||
| Format | Gives the format of the media file | ||||||
| Start | Indicates when the recording was started | ||||||
| Duration | Gives information about the duration of the recording | ||||||
| Audio-Quality | Gives information about the audio quality of the recording | ||||||
| Video-Quality | Gives information about the video quality of the recording | ||||||
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0..N |
Infofile | **** see corpus **** | |||||