If you haven’t heard of the Universal Data Tool, it’s an open-source web or desktop program to collaborate, build and edit text, image, video, and audio datasets with labels and annotations. You can get started with the Universal Data Tool

This is our third community update! We’re hoping by releasing these we can better engage the community and encourage new contributors. Let’s get started…

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New Feature: Two different AWS authentication methods

Universal Data Tool now supports 2 methods of the authentication, you can either use Incognito mode or regular IAM mode.

To use the IAM mode, you just need to enter your Access Key ID, your Secret Access Key, and the region of your S3 bucket and you’re good to go.

The CORS proxy allows you to make requests of the things where the CORS origin security rules don’t allow you to use access to the resource. We introduced this week because it will allow us to use AWS S3 API. There are 2 new options to upload that’s IAM and S3.

New Feature: Fixes for Login with Cognito and import via S3 (Cognito)

We also have the fixes for Login With Cognito including the detection of the upload state, So when anyone logs in and refreshes the page, it remembers to keep logged in.

We also fixed import via S3 (Cognito), so it loads automatically from the bucket. Another fix is for the local directory import.

That’s it for our third community update, be sure to follow us on Twitter, or join our Slack to hear more!