Before you begin

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

1. Sign in to your Google Account.

   If you don't already have one, sign up for a new account.

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 the project selector page

3. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Cloud project. Learn how to confirm that billing is enabled for your project.

4. Enable the Data Labeling API.

   Enable the API

5. Install the Google Cloud SDK and the gcloud command line tool.
6. Follow the instructions to create a service account and download a key file for that account.
7. 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

8. 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.
9. 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"
   

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