In LEXUS you may add three types of multi media: images, sound files and video files. It is wise to create a separate data category for the multi media in the lexicon structure. An example of this is given in Figure 2.10, where a Multi Media component with two data categories: image and video, is linked to Form. How to add data categories and components to your structure is explained in in Section 2.2.

Figure 2.10. Multi media in the lexicon structure

To add multi media to the lexical entry, go to the Lexicon editor and select the lexical entry from the word list. In the right frame select the Lexical Entry tab and move to the data category where you want to add the multi media. In the box enter a header for the media. Next, in the lower part of the right frame, select the Multimedia tab and click import. LEXUS prompts you to choose between uploading the media from a local resource into the LEXUS data base or create a link to media stored in the MPI archive for linguistic resources.

(1) From a local resource: click select resource and browse to the image, sound file or video file. After uploading save in the top frame menu: File --> Save If you have defined the lexical entry view such that it will display the value of the media data category, it will show the media in a boxed frame which includes the header (see Figure 2.11). The image is not scalable, but has a standard width.

Note that since LEXUS allows to add multi media to every data category in the structure, you do not NEED to create a separate data category for the multimedia. You could also add the image to e.g. the head word data category. In the lexical entry view this would result in a box around the headword and the media file.

Figure 2.11. Image in the lexical entry view

(2) Linking to the archive: Select Archive in the Import Resource pop-up. LEXUS promps you for the internal node ID in the MPI archive. To find this node ID, open a new tab in your internet browser and open the MPI archive at http://corpus1.mpi.nl in the corpus tree browse to the node where you want to link to, e.g. an ELAN annotation file. Click on the resource in the tree, and copy from the right frame, the value of the internal nodeid (e.g. MPI600401#). Copy this ID in the LEXUS prompt and select:get resource. When you have selected an ELAN file, LEXUS will also prompt you to feed the start time and end time of the fragment you wish to link to LEXUS. When you ignore this LEXUS will jump to the beginning of the file. After uploading save in the top frame menu: File --> Save