Session
In SayMore, a session is a collection of files and metadata related to one source recording.
Depending on your work flow, you will likely start with one recording, which is initially the only file related to the session.
Next, you enter metadata about that recording, information about the person, genre, and so on. Over time, you will add other files to the session which augment that recording: a careful speech recording, a transcription, a free translation, an interlinearization, and so on.
Each session has an Id which you determine, and all of these files will be kept together in a single folder named with that Id. In addition to being kept together in a folder, you will want the names of each of these files to contain that Id. SayMore will help you manage those file names.
Note
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This use of Session is not to be confused with a broader use of the term, such as Wedding or Festival, which could span several days, and thus several recordings. A SayMore session is simply one source recording that you will transcribe and translate, plus the various supporting files. If you have several recordings pertaining to one "event", use the ID and name fields to help identify their relationship.
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From http://tla.mpi.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/IMDI_MetaData_3.0.4.pdf:
"The session concept bundles all information about the circumstances and conditions of the linguistic event, groups the resources belonging to this linguistic event, records the administrative information of the event and describes the content of the event. Since version 3.0 also written resources other than annotations can be included in a session. For written resources the definition of session is extended to include all documents that pertain to the creation, analysis and commentary of a document."