Before you begin

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This feature is subject to the "Pre-GA Offerings Terms" in the General Service Terms section of the Service Specific Terms. Pre-GA features are available "as is" and might have limited support. For more information, see the launch stage descriptions.

Before you can use AI Platform Data Labeling Service, you must enable it for your project.

1. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

2. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

3. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

4. Enable the Data Labeling API.

   Enable the API

5. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

6. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

7. Enable the Data Labeling API.

   Enable the API

8. Install the Google Cloud CLI and the Google Cloud CLI.
9. Follow the instructions to create a service account and download a key file for that account.
10. Set the GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable to the path to the service account key file that you downloaded when you created the service account.

    export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=KEY_FILE

11. Set the PROJECT_ID environment variable to your Project ID.

    export PROJECT_ID=YOUR_PROJECT_ID

    The Data Labeling API calls and resource names include your Project ID in them. The PROJECT_ID environment variable provides a convenient way to specify the ID.
12. Add your user account and your service account to the Data Labeling Editor IAM role.
    1. Replace YOUR_USERID@YOUR_DOMAIN with your user account.
    2. Replace SERVICE_ACCOUNT_NAME with the name of your new service account, for example [e-mail].

    gcloud auth login
    gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding $PROJECT_ID 
    
       --member="user:YOUR_USERID@YOUR_DOMAIN" 
    
       --role="roles/datalabeling.editor"
    gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding $PROJECT_ID 
    
       --member="serviceAccount:SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL" 
    
       --role="roles/datalabeling.editor"
    

13. Create a Google Cloud Storage bucket to store the data that you want to label and the instructions for the labelers.