There are two ways to start EUDICO:
For information on installing and configuring your system, see prerequisites.
All access to EUDICO is authorized. For demonstration purposes a public account is available that gives access to a restricted set of corpus material. To login use User ID "eudico" with Password "demo".
A browser with two panels is now opened. Both panels contain hierarchical lists. The upper panel is intended for making selections of corpus data elements (multiple selections are allowed, use Control-Click and Shift-Click). The lower panel shows all tools, sorted by category, that apply to the current selection of data elements. Select a data - tool combination and click 'OK'.
The eudico/demo account gives access to a few selected data elements from two different corpora. 'gesture corpus' contains a few transcriptions based on MPEG-1 digital video. These transcriptions contain coding of speech, gestures or both, in project specific ways. 'CHAT formatted corpora' contains selected transcriptions from the ESF second language corpus. These transcriptions mainly contain speech utterances of multiple speakers and are associated with WAV audio files.
All tool names with the exception of one are dimmed. This implicates that they are either placeholders to demonstrate the type of functionality that is going to be added to EUDICO in the future, or that they are disabled for the demonstration prototype. The selectable tool is called "Media Synchronized Viewers" and encapsulates most of EUDICO's viewing facilities.
After starting 'Media Synchronized Viewers' on a transcription two windows pop up: one displays a matrix with checkboxes and the other displays a media playback window containing some controls and, when it is available for the transcription, a video image.
The matrix window is intended to select which tier's annotation data should be visualized, and in which type of viewer. Four types of viewers are available. Three show a representation of one single tier (subtitle, grid, taglist), the fourth one represents data from multiple tiers combined in one viewer (timeline).
Select a combination of viewers by selecting the proper checkboxes and click 'OK'.
Note: All viewers are synchronized with media time. Therefore opening a lot of viewers simultaneously may affect fluent playback of media data.
click on the start/stop button of the controller in the media window to start or stop playback in all viewers
drag the slider of the controller in the media window
click on the time code box in the lower left of the media window, and enter a time
manually
click on the representation of a tag in any of the windows (except the subtitle
window)
click on the representation of a tag in any of the windows.
shift-click to extend the current selection
drag with the mouse in the time line viewer
Note: very fine grained time selection tools will be made available in the future to support the process of aligning tags with media data.
double click on the representation of a tag in any window. This will make that tag the cursor.
subtitle panels in the media window can be reordered vertically by dragging them to the proper location by their borders.
columns can be resized with the splitter tool that shows up when the mouse pointer is moved over the grid header.
tiers can be reordered vertically by dragging their labels to the proper
location.
scrolling horizontally implies changing media time in all viewers.
right-clicking on a tag's time bar pops up a panel showing the complete value of
the tag.