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Upload a transcript file and associated media files.

transcriptUpload.Rd

Uploading files is the first stage in adding or modifying a transcript to LaBB-CAT. The second stage is transcriptUploadParameters()

Usage

transcriptUpload(labbcat.url, transcript, media = NULL, merge = FALSE)

Arguments

labbcat.url

URL to the LaBB-CAT instance

transcript

The path to the transcript to upload.

media

The path to the media to upload, if any.

merge

Whether the upload corresponds to updates to an existing transcript (TRUE) or a new transcript (FALSE).

Value

A named list with members:

  • id The unique identifier to use for this upload when subsequently calling transcriptUploadParameters()

  • parameters A list of named lists representing the parameters that require values to be passed into transcriptUploadParameters(). The parameters returned may include both information required by the format deserializer (e.g. mappings from tiers to LaBB-CAT layers) and also general information required by LaBB-CAT (e.g. the corpus, episode, and type of the transcript). Each parameter returned is a dict that may contain the following attributes: - "name" - The name that should be used when specifying the value for the parameter when calling transcriptUploadParameters() - "label" - A label for the parameter intended for display to the user. - "hint" - A description of the purpose of the parameter, for display to the user. - "type" - The type of the parameter, e.g. "String", "Double", "Integer", "Boolean". - "required" - True if the value must be specified, False if it is optional. - "value" - A default value for the parameter. - "possibleValues" - A list of possible values, if the possibilities are limited to a finite set. The required parameters may include both information required by the format deserializer (e.g. mappings from tiers to LaBB-CAT layers) and also general information required by LaBB-CAT, such as: - "labbcat_corpus" - The corpus the new transcript(s) belong(s) to. - "labbcat_episode" - The episode the new transcript(s) belong(s) to. - "labbcat_transcript_type" - The transcript type for the new transcript(s). - "labbcat_generate" - Whether to re-regenerate automated annotation layers or not.

Details

NB Using transcriptUpload and transcriptUploadParameters is an alternative to using newTranscript or updateTranscript.

For this function to work, the credentials used to connect to the server must have at least 'edit' access.

See also

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
## Get attributes for new transcript
corpus <- getCorpusIds(labbcat.url)[1]
transcript.type.layer <- getLayer(labbcat.url, "transcript_type")
transcript.type <- transcript.type.layer$validLabels[[1]]

## upload transcript and its media
result <- transcriptUpload(labbcat.url, "my-transcript.eaf", "my-transcript.wav", FALSE)

## use the default parameter values
parameterValues <- list()
for(p in 1:length(parameters$name)) parameterValues[parameters$name[p]] <- parameters$value[p]

## set the upload parameters to finalise the upload
transcript.id <- transcriptUploadParameters(labbcat.url, result$id, parameterValues)
} # }