new authentication systgem

[Nola Taylor Radford]

Thank you!

On Sun, Apr 14, 2024, 8:36 PM Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Phon,
>
> Yesterday we turned on a new system for user authentication for TalkBank.
> You will find that, when you log in now, there will be a dialog for you to
> enter your username and set up a password that you will need to remember.
> This is the standard procedure followed at most websites nowadays. Once you
> are logged in, you will be able to access all TalkBank materials for which
> you have access. We have created a database of over 4000 TalkBank users
> along with information about which materials they can access. If your email
> address matches what we have in our database, then you will have automatic
> access.
>
> Currently, this system is only fully deployed for the Browsable Database.
> For other actions, such as downloading transcript files, we will be rolling
> out the new system next week for the 14 databanks by inserting scripts in
> each of the HTML pages. So, for now, you will see that access to materials
> in the Browsable database no longer requires you to repeatedly enter
> username and password, because your browser stores your info as a cookie
> for the current session.
>
> If you run into any problems with this, please write to me and hopefully
> we can resolve things during the coming week.
>
> — Brian MacWhinney
> Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology,
> Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU
>
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