In the dialog window below (which pops up as the first dialog for most of the multiple file operation) do one of the following:
Select an existing domain from the list and click
. (Click if you want to delete the domain.)Create a new domain:
Click
Click in the new dialog on the Look in pull down box and browse to the directory that contains the annotation files.
Double-click an annotation file (*.eaf
) to select
it. It now appears in the rightmost box. Alternatively, you can click on the
annotation file name and click the
button.
Repeat this for every annotation file you want to include.
It is also possible to select a complete directory. All
.eaf
files in a selected directory will be
included.
Click
to continue the exporting process; otherwise click to exit the dialog window without exporting.If you clicked
you can save this domain: enter a name and click . If you do not want to save the domain click .Create a new domain from an IMDI search:
Click
Browse to and select an IMDI file that has been exported from a metadata search in the standalone IMDI Browser.
Click
.You can save this domain: enter a name and click
. If you do not want to save the domain click .ELAN offers the possibility to export multiple annotation files as one file. To do so click on
and one of the options.To export multiple files as Tab-delimited Text, click
> > .A multiple file selection dialog appears(see the section called “How to select multiple files” . Select or create a domain and click on ok to continue.
Then in the next dialog that appears, select tiers and options as you would do when exporting a single Tab-delimited Text file (see the section called “Tab-delimited text file”). A column containing the file names is added to the export file.
The following options cannot be checked:
Restrict to selected time interval: the selected time interval does not necessarily correspond to an interval in the files selected for export.
Add master media time offset to annotation times: the master media (time offset) of the file currently opened in ELAN does not necessarily correspond to the media (time offset) of the files selected for export.
To export multiple files as List of annotations, click
> > .A multiple file selection dialog appears(see the section called “How to select multiple files” . Select or create a domain and click on ok to continue.
Then in the next dialog that appears, select the tiers (see the section called “How to select tiers” ) from which the annotations are to be exported. Note that the annotations are not separated into words. Check Count occurrences if you want the list to include the number of occurrences for each annotation.
To export multiple files as Tab-delimited Text, click
> > .A multiple file selection dialog appears(see the section called “How to select multiple files” . Select or create a domain and click on ok to continue.
Then in the next dialog that appears, select the tiers and other options as you would do when exporting a single Tab-delimited Text file (see the section called “Alphabetical list of words”).
There could be situations in which you want to discard or select tiers from
multiple .eaf
files, for instance if you want to present a third
party with a limited number of tiers. To do so, select
. In
the first dialog(see the section called “How to select multiple files”) you can select
the files from which you want to export a selection of tiers.
Once you have selected your files, Export Tiers from Multiple Files dialog appears.
To export, do the following:
Select tiers (see the section called “How to select tiers”) for the export.
In the Output Options section you can specify...
whether to Export parent tiers of the selected dependent tiers
automatically
or to Only export dependent tiers if
their parent tiers are selected
.
whether to Save files with original names
of to
Make use of suffixes
. In case of the latter, you can
specify whether to save the files with their original name followed by a
suffix or to save the files with a new base name and followed by a suffix
number.
whether the files should be saved in the original directory, in a (possibly new) directory which is local for each files, or together in the same directory.
whether of not ELAN should export files that result in having no tiers.
Finally, click
to export the .eaf files containing only the selected tiers.This function is available via menu
-> -> .This function allows the user to select one “reference” tier and multiple other tiers that will be compared (sequentially) with the reference tier. The comparison is done on the level of the annotations.
The following information will be present in the resulting tab-delimited text file:
The Header line with column names
Column 1- 4:
Begin time | End time | Duration | Reference Tier Name |
These columns will contain information for all annotations of the reference tier. The annotation values are in the column with the tier name as the header, the time info in the first 3 columns.
Next for each “comparing” tier there will be 11 columns, the header of which consists of the tier name and a suffix and the column contains the following information:
1 | Name-ov | 0 or 1, whether there is an overlapping annotation or not (0=no, 1=yes) |
2 | Name-same | 0 or 1, whether the overlapping annotation has the same value. If there are more than one overlapping annotations the value is 0 (0=no, 1=yes) |
3 | Name-ov-dur | The duration of the overlap, the total overlap duration in case of more than one overlapping annotation |
4 | Name-no-ann | The number of overlapping annotations |
5 | Name-value | The value of the overlapping annotation, concatenated, comma separated, in case of multiple overlaps |
6 | Name-bt-to-bt-After | The amount of time from the beginning of the reference annotation to the beginning of the first non |
7 | Name-et-to-bt-After | The amount of time from the end of the reference annotation to the beginning of the first non overlapping annotation |
8 | Name-et-to-et-After | The amount of time from the end of the reference annotation to the end of the first non overlapping annotation |
9 | Name-bt-After | The begin time of the annotation on the comparing tier after the reference annotation |
10 | Name-et-After | The end time of the annotation on the comparing tier after the reference annotation |
11 | Name-value-After | The value of the first annotation on the comparing tier after the reference annotation |
The content per file
After the header, for each file there will be the following information/data:
one line containing the file name
a number of rows equal to the number of annotations of the reference tier
each cell filled with the information corresponding to the header description (above)
All time values are in milliseconds.
Normally ELAN allows to edit only a single file at a time. There are situations in which it is convenient to edit multiple files at once. The menu item Undo for multiple file edits).
gives a number of options to do just this. When selecting either of them, you are warned that you should have copies of the files you are going to work on in case you want to restore the files (there is noWhen you choose this option
, you see the following dialog.Options :
Select folder containing media files : click button to select the folder containing media files.
check this option process sub-folders as well, recursive to include all the media files in the recursive sub-folders of the selected folder.
To apply a template (only if required) for the new transcription files, check this option Use a template for the new transcription files and click on button to select the template file.
Next option allows you to select a location for the new transcription files.
To put the transcription files in the same folder as the media files, select in the same folder as the media files.
To put them in a different folder, select in other folder and click the button to select the destination folder.
You could always have more than one media file in a transcription. In order to group the media files for a transcription, check this option Combine videos based on. In order to define how the media should be grouped, select one of the following:
different suffix : to combine the media file with a different suffix and has the same file name.
different prefix : to combine the media file different preffix value and has the same file name.
To specify a separator in the filename to identify the suffix or preffix, check this option Specify custom affix separator character ('-' and '_' are built in).
Click on Start to create the transcriptions based on the options set.
The option the section called “How to select multiple files”). After loading a domain, the data is shown in the table. In this table you can edit tiers on the Tiers tab and linguistic types on the Linguistic Types tab.
shows, after clicking in the warning dialog mentioned above, the Multi File Editor. The first thing to do here is to load a domain by clicking . Loading a domain is the same as for the option. To be able to load a domain you must of course have created one beforehand(seeTo edit a name, annotator or participant of a tier, double click the corresponding table cell or select it and start typing. To change the linguistic type of a tier, select one from the drop down menu. You can add a tier by clicking
and remove one by clicking .If there are hierarchy inconsistencies (e.g. if a tier in one file does have a parent while a tier with the same name in another file does not) removing tiers is not possible. The button
is therefore greyed out.
On the Linguistic Types tab, the name of a linguistic type can be changed by
double clicking the corresponding table cell in the Type Name
column.
Changes made in the Tiers and Types tabs are applied to all the files in the domain after clicking the Save changes to domain files button.
When you choose the section called “How to select multiple files”.
, you first need to specify a new domain or select an existing domain. This option helps you to "clean" the annotation files (*.eaf) of possible tabs or whitespace characters which are often overlooked by the user but are still saved in the file. To select, create or delete a domain seeIn the next dialog, you can specify what characters to delete, new line characters, tab characters and/or whitespace characters, and in what position these characters have to be. Click
to start the scrubbing process. The progress of the scrubbing is shown in the progress bar.The option the section called “Creating annotations from overlaps” ), but applied to a selection of files. The first step allows to select a custom set of files in a file browser or to load a set of files that have been stored as a domain. For loading or creating new domain see the section called “How to select multiple files” The list of tiers is the sum of all tier names encountered in the selected files. The options in the next steps are the same, clicking the Finish button in the last step the new tier is created and populated with annotations in all files of the domain.
for multiple files is the same function as annotations from overlaps in the current open file (seeThe option the section called “Create Annotation By subtraction” ), but applied to a selection of files. The first step allows to select a custom set of files in a file browser or to load a set of files that have been stored as a domain. For loading or creating new domain see the section called “How to select multiple files” The list of tiers is the sum of all tier names encountered in the selected files. The options in the next steps are the same, clicking the Finish button in the last step the new tier is created and populated with annotations in all files of the domain.
for multiple files is the same function as annotations from subtraction in the current open file (seeThis function the section called “Annotations Statistics”). The main difference after selecting the files in the domain is that it is possible to select which tiers to include in the calculations. The tables in the tabs do not have the column showing the total annotation duration as a percentage of the media duration but most do have a column for the number of files a certain value (tier or type name etc.) has been encountered in. After changes in the selection of files or in the selection of tiers the Update Statistics button needs to be clicked before the new calculations are started.
is similar to annotation statistics for the current file (see