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Import Through UI

Uploading through the web UIΒΆ

The easiest way to get started with working on your datasets is through the WEBKNOSSOS web interface. You can directly upload your dataset through the browser.

  1. From the Datasets tab in the user dashboard, click the Add Dataset button.
  2. Provide some metadata information:
    • a name
    • give access permissions for one or more teams (use the default team if all members of your organization should be able to see it)
    • scale of each voxel (in nanometers)
  3. Drag and drop your data into the upload section
  4. Click the Upload button

Internally, WEBKNOSSOS uses the WKW-format by default to display your data. If your data is already in WKW you can simply drag your folder (or zip archive of that folder) into the upload view.

If your data is not in WKW, you can either:

  • upload the data in a supported file format and WEBKNOSSOS will automatically import or convert it (webknossos.org only). Depending on the size of the dataset, the conversion will take some time. You can check the progress at the Jobs page or the "Datasets" tab in the dashboard. WEBKNOSSOS will also send you an email notification.
  • Convert your data manually to WKW. For this, we provide the following software tools and libraries:

In particular, the following file formats are supported for uploading (and conversion):

Once the data is uploaded (and potentially converted), you can further configure a dataset's Settings and double-check layer properties, fine tune access rights & permissions, or set default values for rendering.