LogosLink User's Manual · LogosLink version 2.0.1

Create a Corpus and Sync Documents

A corpus is basically a collection of documents that you can analyse as a whole. A corpus resides on a directory. When you create a corpus, you set what directory it is on, and LogosLink Desktop will create documents for any files in that directory.

Follow these steps to create a new corpus and sync any existing documents:

  1. Create a directory on your computer, and move any files you want to add to the corpus to this directory. These files can be PDF documents, word processor files such as Microsoft Word, plain text files, audio or video files, etc.
  2. Open LogosLink Desktop.
  3. If no dataset is open, click on Corpus in the Home ribbon tab. Alternatively, open the backstage and click on New, Corpus. A dialog box will be shown.
  4. Browse to and select the directory that you created as base directory for the corpus.
  5. Type in a name for the corpus, such as "My First Corpus".
  6. Give the corpus a description, if you wish. You can always edit this later on.
  7. Make sure the Add new documents check box is checked.
  8. Check or uncheck any other boxes depending on how you want to add the existing files to the corpus. The default values often work fine, but feel free to experiment with them. See the Add and Remove Documents in a Corpus page for additional details on these options.
  9. Click OK to create the corpus and synchronise documents. LogosLink Desktop will let you know that there are files in the directory. If there are many files, creating the corpus and sychronising them may take a few minutes.
  10. Once it is done, LogosLink Desktop will show a Corpus window for the newly created corpus, containing the created documents.

Once the corpus is created, you can add or remove documents at any point.

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