The IMDI (ISLE Metadata Initiative) Browser was developed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. It is used to manage metadata and data files. As such, it complements the other IMDI tools, notably the IMDI Editor.
At the moment, the following IMDI tools exist (tools and manuals can be downloaded from http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/imdi):
IMDI (Metadata) Editor: a tool for creating metadata descriptions, both for so-called sessions or resource bundles and for subcorpus nodes;
IMDI Metadata Search Tool: a tool for searching through metadata information;
IMDI CV-Editor: a tool for creating lists of controlled vocabulary items;
The IMDI Browser supports the following features:
displaying and accessing data and metadata through a hierarchical tree structure and a world map;
direct access to media, annotation and metadata files;
searching of metadata files (by means of the IMDI Metadata Search Tool).
This manual explains and exemplifies the features of the IMDI Browser. It is organized around the following four chapters:
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This manual contains a number of references to corpora housed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI). It uses these corpora as a means to illustrate the functionality of the IMDI Browser. Please note that any remark (e.g., about the structure of the corpora, their availability, the contact person etc.) only pertain to these corpora. Corpora stored at other archives or institutes follow different rules. |