Chapter 2. Workspace creation and selection
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As it is important to maintain the structural consistency and coherence of the various corpora, LAMUS works with so called “workspaces”. These can be regarded to as “copies” of the sub-corpora. Browsing the tree structure of the archive, the user selects the part that needs to be modified (usually his/her own project). This selection is then copied to a separate. isolated location called a virtual workspace. In this area the user can safely change the structure of the selected part of the corpus, add or remove resources and metadata without affecting the actual archive. The workspace can be saved in-between sessions or, if errors were made, be deleted. It is possible to have more than one active workspace, however, only one topnode can be worked on at the same time. This is to avoid possible conflicts between overlapping workspaces. When the user has finished modifying the nodes, the new (or updated) parts of the corpus can be submitted for the data to be incorporated into the actual archive. It is not possible to create a workspace outside the authorized domain of the user, which has been determined by the central corpus administration at the MPI of Psycholinguistics.
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