LAMUS (Language Archive Management and Upload System) is developed at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. It is a web-based application that allows users to organize and update the content of the extensive archive of the IMDI-(ISLE Metadata Description Initiative) corpus at the MPI.
The application allows researchers themselves to manage their specific part of the archive with as little intervention of corpus- or system managers as possible. Various kinds of resources (e.g. video-, audio data, pictures and annotations) can be linked into the tree structure of the archive, enriching the content of the corpus. LAMUS is designed around virtual workspaces, which provide safe working environments for its users. Managing the resources and the structure of the sub-corpus in this workspace will not affect the actual archive itself. Only when the researcher has finished working on the workspace and the data is submitted, will such data be incorporated into the actual archive. After the transfer, search indexes will be updated for the metadata and the content. During the whole process various checks are being performed on the metadata and on the resources to ensure the consistency and the coherence of the archive.
LAMUS is visualized through an easy-to-use interface which allow users to:
register themselves to LAMUS (Chapter 1).
create new workspaces and/or select already existing ones, (Chapter 2).
manage the contents of the workspace (i.e. make new corpus structures, upload new metadata and resources, request more storage space) and upload the updated corpora into the archive (Chapter 3).
The main LAMUS page can be accessed by going to http://corpus1.mpi.nl/jkc/lamus/ in a recent web browser with Java support.