If you want to use remote CMDI metadata that are not available under remote corpus, or want to link them at root level, you can add them yourself, provided that you know the URL address of this remote metadata. Right click on the Remote Corpus top node and choose Add Remote Location. In the pop-up window enter the URL and press OK. The corpus should now appear in the main list of the Remote Corpus window.
Since you might not want to use all of the collections of CMDI instances in the Remote Corpus, it is also possible to remove any of the locations of the Remote Corpus at the root level so as to only display the collections that you need. This can be done at the root level only (see figure 3.1) by right clicking on the node (e.g. for MPI corpora) and selecting Remove Remote Location.
If you have removed some remote metadata, it is always possible to re-add them to the Remote Corpus by right clicking on it and selecting Add Default Remote Locations. To add a subnode to the root level, browse to the desired sub collection, right click on it and choose Copy. Then go back to the top node of the Remote Corpus and paste the URL in the dialogue box. The sub collection will now appear in the Remote Corpus tree.
The corpus data on the Remote Corpus may sometimes be updated by the researchers. To be sure that you are working with the newest version of the available corpus, you can update it manually on the nodes that you believe have been altered. To do this, right click on the specific collection you want to update and select Reload.