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64 Belinda MaiaSearchablecorporaencodingCQPXMLCorpora searches(terminology,semantic relations,etc.)Pre-processingProduction ofnew resourcesUse of existingresources in thedatabaseText filesEditing ofMeta-informationCorpógrafo Information systemMeta-Information + resulting resources + auxiliaryresources of the CorpógrafoMeta-informationon filesTerminologydatabasesMeta-informationon corporaLexical Resourcesand Search PatternsFigure 1. Structure of the Corpógrafo from the user’s point of view in 2006.and password. Each researcher or group is provided with a private space on thededicated server on which to carry out their work. They create, analyse and experimentwith their own corpora and databases and try out new ideas, but everythingthey do with these tools is saved on this private space. The administrator and theteacher or supervisor may use the student or researcher’s username and passwordto enter that space, also over the Web, and provide help and advice when necessary.Otherwise, each project functions autonomously.On acquiring a space on the server via free registration for a username andpassword, the user is presented with an empty ‘space’ in which to work, togetherwith instructions for use. The Gestor (File Manager) allows one to:– Import texts in various formats and upload them to the Corpógrafo;– Register the metadata of the texts, i.e., document, authorship, source, domainand text type (this allows proper credit to be given for any informationextracted, and serves as some protection from copyright problems);– Preprocess texts by the removal of unwanted material and text correction;– Automatically divide the text into sentence length units;– Combine and re-combine texts to form corpora for specialised research (e.g.,onecancombineallthedomainspecifictexts in one language to extract ter-