There are four basic ways of creating and using a corpus in Voyant. (A "corpus" is a set of documents).
- Open an existing or sample corpus
- Type or paste text into the main text box
- Type or paste one or more URLs into the main text box
- Upload files from your computer
Take a moment to practice creating corpora from different sources. You may find it helpful to keep the following in mind:
- typing or pasting text into the the main box is okay for short documents, but you will probably want to upload longer documents
- enter one URL per line
- when uploading you can use Shift and CTRL to select multiple files
- you can create a zip file on your computer and upload that, rather than selecting multiple documents
- you can click on the "home" icon in the upper right hand corner of the Voyant screen to start over
You can refer to the Voyant doucmentation for additional details on creating a corpus from different file formats.
If you need to modify a coprpus that you have already created, you can do so by clicking on the "modify" button of the documents tool (by default in the lower left-hand corner). This will allow you to add new documents to the corpus, remove exisiting documents, or reorder the corpus. Note that only one operation for modifying a corpus can be done at a time.
Let's create a corpus related to the ongoing work of the 2022 Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows program at Bryn Mawr College. (If you're not a current DSSF, feel free to create a corpus that speaks to you!)
Navigate to the current Encyclopedia of the Dog website. Let's copy the URLs for each chapter in English translation and add them to the main text box in Voyant. (Remember, only one URL per line). When you've added each URL, hit "reveal" to create your corpus!
