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Welcome to the Corpus Developer Toolkit!

This wiki provides information on the corpus web software that runs Crow, the corpus & repository of writing. It is intended to be starting point or template for researchers to develop their own web-based corpora platforms.

First step: read the executive summary to determine if this approach fits your corpus goals.

Contents

The "backend": Data storage & retrieval via the application programming interface (API)

1. Overview: the website backend
2. Importing corpus texts
3. Importing repository materials
4. Deploying to a server
5. Updating software dependencies

The "frontend": Design and usability considerations for a corpus interface

1. Overview: the website frontend

Context & case studies

1. Case study: Adapting the software for a multilingual corpus, MACAWS