Welcome
These pages implement a search and conversion engine for text files.
It targets CA researchers and extra effort has been put into supporting the Gold Standard transcription convention.
There are a few points to consider before you start:
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Prerequisites
CAFont: please download and install the latest CAFont from Talkbank. It is the same font as required by CLAN.
The font was updated in summer 2010 for better support of 0-width characters (underline).
JavaScript: CASE is a web-application which relies heavily upon JavaScript to communicate with the server and run the makros on your data.
JavaScript must be enabled for it to work.
Webkit browser: CASE is developed for WebKit Browsers (Chrome, Chromium, Safari).
Using one of these is required for the application to run. Most stable is Googles' Chrome, which is available for most operating systems.
General Issues
Be aware: Although CASE has come to stay it still is a research prototype developed for my Ph.D. Thesis.
Although you can upload private transcripts they will be accessible to Google. I will develop a solution for keeping and searching sensitive files when resources become available.
Be sure to keep a backup of any data you upload.
Feedback: I welcome any feedback relating to the design, features and possible bugs of CASE.
Tips
- The user interface has not been streamlined for responsiveness yet, baer with the application as it battles the heavy algorithms I pressed upon it. While loading and highlighting seem slow only truly complex queries (with heavy use of backreferences in actions) will take more than a couple of seconds.
- Sessions save opened transcripts with them. On loading a session all opened transcripts will be retransmitted, which can result in several megabytes of traffic. Depending on your connection this may take a while.
- Save your session regularly. Whenever you think Case gives you trouble reload the page. Unsaved changes will be lost.
- If you do not see transcribed underlines in the Transcript Browser, you probably do not have a recent (summer '10 and newer) version of the CAFont installed.
- In case you are proficient with regular expression syntax: do not rely on \b, use the prefabricated patterns word start and word end instead.
Bugs
Most errors are my fault, really. But the technology used relies on a couple dozen projects to remain inter-compatible during their evolution. Please be patient, as I will try my best to keep the following list as short as possible.
- cannot edit private transcripts
- ignored chars are not set on new session
- private transcript form is transparent and has too low a zIndex
- toggling root canvas: skip mnemonic (.C:empty)
- single click bullet with hidden media messes up the rendered media size
- rendering transcripts multiple times possible
- media only playbacks sound
- [^\u0332]{20,} does not work
- mødregruppen:1434 not found by speakershift+something{400}+hvad?
- turn [abc]Q into [a]Q[b]Q[c]Q upon augmenting pattern to remove query unsharpness
- augmenting selected text in inputs with non-underscore-gold-feature offsets cursor
Backlog
- include all gold features in ignored characters
- prefab variable: turnfinal(maxChars_till_speaker_shift_that_is_no_overlap_or_pause)
- personal canvasses are not yet implemented
- apply color change to .submatch.hits without searching again
