When working with Arbil, you have to decide whether you are going to work on an existing collection of instances from the Remote Corpus or create a new collection of instances. Assuming that you intend to edit metadata from a remote location and add additional media files, you will have to follow steps 1-6 below.
The Arbil work flow for editing a collection of CMDI instances functions as follows:
1) Browse the Remote Corpus and locate the metadata which you intend to edit; drag the metadata from the Remote Corpus panel into the Local Corpus panel so as to import them.
2) Now that the remote metadata are located in the Local Corpus, you may edit them freely. To edit the metadata, drag the node into the Table Area (see figure 1.1 above, tab number 6) and edit the fields accordingly. This can be done with several nodes at once.
3) In order to add resources to profiles (e.g. media files and annotations), you must set up a working directory which links a folder located on your computer to Arbil. This means that any media files in this folder will appear in the Working Directory area so that Resource files can be added to the nodes in your Local Corpus. To add files to your new collection, drag and drop them from the Files tab to the Local Corpus. Now you can edit the metadata following step 2.
4) Stored profile components, such as common actors, can be added to the local corpus from the Favourites (either via drag and drop, or via the option Add from favorites that you find when right clicking the node in the Local Corpus where you want the favorites to be added.
5) Once your metadata have been edited correctly and your desired media files have been added, you can export the metadata files to a directory (folder) on your computer, ready to be uploaded to a metadata repository.
6) Finally, you can decide to make your metadata public. The procedure for this depends on the institution.
In Arbil all work on metadata takes place in the Local Corpus tree. The various operations displayed in the figure above can usually be triggered by right-clicking on elements in the Local Corpus, or via "drag and drop" (e.g. clicking on an element in the Remote Corpus, holding the mouse key, and dragging the element to the Local Corpus, or to a node within the Local Corpus). Media files (i. e. audio and video recordings) and written resources can also be added to nodes via "drag and drop" from the Working Directories tree in the Files tab. Only for importing metadata files from the file system (e.g. previously exported metadata) to the Local Corpus root, you have to access the File menu in Arbil's menu bar.