The Project Window

The Project Window is the window shown when CorpusTool opens up. It presents the analysis layers you have defined, and the text files in your project.

When you create a new project, the list of layers will be empty, and the file list will show the files you specified within the New Project Wizard.

The Layer Pane

The top part of the Project Window shows the layers in your project, one pane per project. To add a new layer, press the Add Layer button. The pane for each layer tells you:

The File Pane

Under the layer pane is the space where you manage the files that you have in your project. Initially, files are categorised as "unincorporated", which means the files are present in your corpus, but not yet available for annotation. You need to "incorporate" each file into the project before you can annotate it. To do this, click on the "Action" menu at the left of each file name, and select "Incorporate file". For text files (but not images), you will be asked to specify some information:
Note: all of these options can be changed at a later point by selecting the "Change file metadata" option from the Action menu of each incorporated file.

Coding Documents: Once a file is incorporated, it will be given some extra buttons, one for each defined analysis layer. Cick on any of these buttons to open the analysis window for that file and layer.

Color Coding Text: Clicking on the file name will open a window which allows you to view the text, and (if you have at least one layer defined), it allows you to "style" the text: change the font style (size, bold, italic) and color of text which is tagged with given features. See "Styled Text View" for more information.

Adding New Text: Click on the "Extend Corpus" button to add new texts to the corpus.