Arbil

For editing and managing IMDI metadata. Version 2.6.

This manual was last updated in November 2015.

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

George Saad

Anastosios Vogiatzis

Katarzyna Wojtylak

Claudia Zabeo

Michal Czaplinski

Francesca Bechis

Steffen Kaiser


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1. General Information
1.2. Overview
1.3. Workflow
1.4. Arbil icons
2. Starting Arbil
2.1. Language selection
3. Set-up
3.1. Corpus nodes, sessions and catalogues
3.2. Remote Corpus
3.2.1. Adding and removing Remote Locations
3.2.2. Add to Tree Root
3.2.3. Viewing Remote Corpus Information
3.3. Local Corpus
3.3.1. Import to Local Corpus
3.3.2. Creating corpus and session nodes
3.3.3. Local Corpus Storage Directory
3.4. Working Directories
3.5. Favourites
4. Editing the corpus structure
4.1. Adding a new corpus node
4.2. Adding a new session node
4.3. Adding a new catalogue node
4.4. Adding other components
4.5. Adding more field components
4.6. Add field with custom name
4.7. Delete field(s)
4.8. Adding resource files to a session
4.9. Copying and moving corpus and session nodes
4.10. Deleting corpus elements
4.11. Saving changes
5. Editing the metadata
5.1. Editing one cell
5.2. Long field editor
5.3. Editing multiple cells
5.3.1. Find and Replace
5.4. Editing All Metadata of a Subnode
5.5. Customizing Column Views
5.6. Highlighting cells with the same value
5.7. Track Table Selection in Tree
6. Searching
6.1. Searching Local Corpus
6.2. Searching Remote Corpus
6.3. 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 Filetypes Configuration
10.2. Templates
10.3. New languages
10.4. Plugins
10.5. Custom logging configuration