You can find information on the label protocol, the naming conventions, and the phoneme labels here (in Dutch) and here (some of it in English).

Text types are:

• Fixed: Textual materials read by each speaker
• Variable: Speaker specific textual materials derived from the unique (informal) story told by each speaker

Speaking styles are:

• Informal: An elicited story about a vacation trip told to an interviewer (face to face)
  
• Retold: A previously read story (a fixed fairy tale or the vacation trip) retold in an empty room
• Read: A long text read from a cueing screen
• Sentence: Isolated sentences read from a cueing screen
• Pseudo Sentence: Non-sentences, constructed by stringing randomly picked words, read from a cueing screen
• Word: Word lists read from a cueing screen
• Syllable: Syllable lists read from a cueing screen
• Pronunciation: Diagnostic and idiomatic lists
  (note: specifying these sub-styles can slow down queries involving multiple tables)
  • ABC: The alphabet read from a cueing screen
  • NUM: The numbers from 0-12 read from a cueing screen
  • VOW: Isolated vowels read from a cueing screen
  • HVD: Vowels in H_D context read from a cueing screen
  • VCV: Isolated intervocalic consonants read from a cueing screen

Information on how to use our Web interface to the IFA-corpus PostgreSQL database, look here.