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You can go to your public TypeCraft user page by clicking on your name at the right upper corner of your TypeCraft wiki page. The screenshot to the left shows such a user page  Wherever you are in on the TypeCraft wiki, clicking your name, in the upper right corwill bring you back to your user page.  
 
You can go to your public TypeCraft user page by clicking on your name at the right upper corner of your TypeCraft wiki page. The screenshot to the left shows such a user page  Wherever you are in on the TypeCraft wiki, clicking your name, in the upper right corwill bring you back to your user page.  
  
====My peferences====
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From your '''my preferences''' page, found to the right of your user name, you can customise the TypeCraft wiki. Here you can change your password, register a new e-mail address and allow others users to send you e-mails via TypeCraft.
 
From your '''my preferences''' page, found to the right of your user name, you can customise the TypeCraft wiki. Here you can change your password, register a new e-mail address and allow others users to send you e-mails via TypeCraft.
  
You also use my preferences to customise the search of TypeCraft wiki pages (not to be confused with a search in the TypeCraft IGT database).  
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You also use my preferences to customise the search behaviour of your TypeCraft wiki (wiki search is not to be confused with a search in the TypeCraft IGT database).  
  
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An easiest way to find things on your TypeCraft wiki is to use the wiki-search window on the navigation bar. Type for example *annotation* and click *GO* or *SEARCH*. The search result will consist of TypeCraft wiki pages from different namespaces that start with the word ''(A,a)nnotation'' in their title.
  
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THe scope of you search depends on in which namespace you search. For the search in the TCwiki it might be best to search in the following four
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* Main
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* User
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* TypeCraft
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* Classroom
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* Help
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You customise your search by going to *my preference* in the right upper corner of your browser window. Select my preferences -> User profile -> *SEARCH*. Select the relevant namespaces by ticking of boxes. Save your preferences.
  
  

Revision as of 14:59, 7 October 2014


TypeCraft 2.0 Editor

In order to allow a smooth transition between the TypeCraft 2.0 editor and the TypeCraft 1.0 editor, TypeCraft will maintain both editors well into 2015, but at the same time we would like to encourage TypeCraft users to switch to the new and improved editor. You still can find a user guide for the old editor at the end of this manual: TypeCraft 1.0 Editor

The Basics

You need to be logged in order to use the TypeCraft editor and edit the TypeCraft wiki(Login screen ] ). Search of the public IGT repository is open to the general public.

After filling in the required login information, you will received a confirmation mail from TypeCraft. This sometimes might take one or two days, since the process is not fully automatic. After confirming your e-mail address, you can login to TypeCraft. The use of the system is free of charge,

When logging in for the first time, TypeCraft creates a public TypeCraft user page for you, using the information that you provided when creating your TypeCraft login.

Dorothee Beermann's user page
One of the main goals of TypeCraft is to facilitate the exchange of IGT data.To know who created and annotated the TypeCraft IGT is part of ensuring linguistic data quality and provenance. Is the language(s) that you work with your mother tongue? Do you speak a dialect? Are you a field worker, a language specialist. Information about your work with language is useful to other users of TypeCraft who are interested in your data.

If you use TypeCraft in the context of a project, you might want to consider creating a project page on the TypeCraft wiki, or link to your already existing project page somewhere else.

You can go to your public TypeCraft user page by clicking on your name at the right upper corner of your TypeCraft wiki page. The screenshot to the left shows such a user page Wherever you are in on the TypeCraft wiki, clicking your name, in the upper right corwill bring you back to your user page.

My preferences

From your my preferences page, found to the right of your user name, you can customise the TypeCraft wiki. Here you can change your password, register a new e-mail address and allow others users to send you e-mails via TypeCraft.

You also use my preferences to customise the search behaviour of your TypeCraft wiki (wiki search is not to be confused with a search in the TypeCraft IGT database).

An easiest way to find things on your TypeCraft wiki is to use the wiki-search window on the navigation bar. Type for example *annotation* and click *GO* or *SEARCH*. The search result will consist of TypeCraft wiki pages from different namespaces that start with the word (A,a)nnotation in their title.

THe scope of you search depends on in which namespace you search. For the search in the TCwiki it might be best to search in the following four namespaces:

click on the picture to see a larger version
  • Main
  • User
  • TypeCraft
  • Category
  • Classroom
  • Help

You customise your search by going to *my preference* in the right upper corner of your browser window. Select my preferences -> User profile -> *SEARCH*. Select the relevant namespaces by ticking of boxes. Save your preferences.











TypeCraft 1.0 Editor (This editor will be maintained until summer 2015)

TypeCraft recommends the new, improved TypeCraft 2.0 editor


You have decided not to use the new TypeCraft editor.Follow the steps as indicated below:

Step 1 - enter text into the text field

The Text Editor has on the left side a text field. You use this field to either to import text from a file by copy & paste, or you manually enter sentences.

Step 2 - sentence split

After you have entered your text you click on *Create phrases*. A dialogue box appears. If you have not marked parts of the text (which you normally only do if you want to add more text to an already existing text), TypeCraft will say: Nothing selected. Should TypeCraft use the whole text instead? Answer: yes.

(Step 3 optional) - repeat sentence split

If you are unhappy with the way TypeCraft has split your sentences, revise the punctuation and delete additional spaces between paragraphs. You can repeat this step until you are satisfied with the sentence break up. When you are happy with the initialised sentence you can start to annotated them

Step 4 - Initializing your annotation table

Click on one of the individual blue initialised phrases on the right-hand side of your Text Editor window. A small window pops-up, saying:

TypeCraft wants to know:
This phrase has no words yet.

You can initialise words and morphemes automatically. Separate words by spaces (" ") and morphemes by hyphens ("-").

If you click cancel you can insert words and morphemes manually.

It seems that we have added this window to confuse you ;); what we really mean is this: You have 3 different options as how to start using the annotator If you want the phrase in the input mask inserted into a table without any further segmentation, click OK. If you want the text in the input mask inserted into the table and you in addition want to split some of the words into smaller segments before they are inserted into the table,you can do that by inserting hyphens "-" or spaces " " now. Click OK. Do not be afraid of possible mistakes you might make when inserting hyphens at this point. You can always change what you do later.

If you don't want to start off with the material in the input mask, but rather wish to fill all material into the table manually click cancel. A one-column skeleton of a table appears, and here you can fill in text in the top line - one word per column. You create a new column by clicking in an existing column: you get a menu where you left-click, and get the options 'New word before', 'New word after' or 'Delete word'. By clicking on either of the former options a new empty column appears, where a word can be written in. On the second line in the table, morphological units are written in in a similar manner - the menu now offers 'New morpheme before', 'New morpheme after' or 'Delete morpheme', and in similar fashion as above, in the first two cases an empty column is created for being filled manually. These manual processes can be performed also if one has chosen one of the first two bullet-point options presented above. Thus, one can at any point go back and correct mistakes, fill in more information, etc.