Administrator Guide
This guide covers managing annotation campaigns: setting up authentication, monitoring progress, ensuring quality, and exporting results.
Setting Up Authentication
Choose an authentication method based on your deployment:
| Method | Best For | Guide |
|---|---|---|
| In-memory | Local development | Default, no config needed |
| Password + file | Team annotation | Password Management |
| Database | Production deployments | Password Management |
| OAuth / SSO | Institutional login | SSO & OAuth |
| Passwordless | Low-stakes, easy access | Passwordless Login |
For user registration and access control, see Users & Collaboration.
Quality Control
Ensure annotation quality with multiple strategies:
- Quality Control - Attention checks, gold standards, and inter-annotator agreement
- Training Phase - Require annotators to pass practice rounds before the real task
- Adjudication - Expert review of annotator disagreements
- MACE - Statistical estimation of annotator competence
Monitoring Progress
- Admin Dashboard - Real-time monitoring of annotation progress, annotator performance, and suspicious activity detection
- Behavioral Tracking - Timing, click patterns, and annotation change history
- Annotation History - Complete audit trail of all annotation actions
- Productivity - Keyboard shortcuts, tooltips, and efficiency features
Managing Annotators
- Task Assignment - Configure how items are distributed to annotators (random, fixed, active learning, diversity-based)
- Category Assignment - Match annotators to items by expertise
- Diversity Ordering - Present diverse items to reduce annotator fatigue
Data Management
- Data Format - Input data requirements
- Data Directory - Load data from a directory with live watching
- Remote Data Sources - Load from S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, or databases
- Export Formats - Export to JSON, CSV, COCO, YOLO, CoNLL, Parquet
- HuggingFace Export - Push annotations to HuggingFace Hub
Troubleshooting
- Debugging Guide - Debug flags, common errors, and troubleshooting steps
- Configuration Reference - Complete config options with defaults