IMDI Editor

version 3.2

Birgit Hellwig

MPI Nijmegen

This manual was last updated: 2007-06-19

The latest version of the manual can be downloaded from the following webpage: http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/imdi/editor/

Original Author: Birgit Hellwig, Updates: Dieter Van Uytvanck


Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Notation Conventions
1. Navigating through the IMDI Editor
1.1. The IMDI Editor window
1.2. The menu items
1.2.1. File menu
1.2.2. View menu
1.2.3. Options menu
1.2.4. Help menu
1.3. The Browse panel
1.4. The Repository panel
1.4.1. Storing metadata information in the repository
1.4.2. Deleting metadata information from the repository
1.4.3. Managing the structure of the repository
1.4.4. Exporting nodes from the repository
1.4.5. Importing nodes into the repository
1.4.6. Updating the information in the repository
1.4.7. Using metadata information from the repository
1.5. The Content panel
1.5.1. Screens
1.5.2. Schemata and fields
1.5.3. Links
1.6. Changes to the user interface (version 2.0)
2. The IMDI Session Editor
2.1. Session
2.1.1. Session
2.1.2. Descriptions
2.1.3. Location
2.1.4. Keys
2.2. Project
2.3. Content
2.3.1. Content Type
2.3.2. Descriptions
2.3.3. Languages
2.3.4. Keys
2.4. Actors
2.4.1. Actor
2.4.2. Actors Descriptions
2.5. Resources
2.5.1. Anonymous
2.5.2. Media Files
2.5.3. Written Resources
2.5.4. Sources
2.6. References
2.7. Changes to the metadata categories (IMDI 3.0 standard)
2.7.1. Changes to the metadata categories
2.7.2. Conversion of old IMDI files to the 3.0 standard
2.7.3. Conversion of old repositories to the 3.0 standard
3. The IMDI Profile Editor
3.1. Creating a new profile
4. The IMDI Lexicon Editor
4.1. Lexicon Resource
5. The IMDI Corpus Editor
5.1. Specify the directory information of files
5.1.1. Link fields
5.1.2. Prefixes
5.2. Select the sessions and subcorpora that belong to a corpus
5.3. Create a corpus node
A. Recurring schemata
A.1. Descriptions
A.2. Keys
A.3. Access
B. Release notes