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This paper reports on findings from the MoCoDa2 project which is creating a corpus of private CMC interactions from smartphone apps based on donations by their users. Different from other projects in the field, the project involves users not only as donators but also as editors of their data: In a web-based editing environment which provides users with access to their raw data, they are supported in pseudonymising their data and enhancing them with rich metadata on the interactional context, meta-data on the interlocutors and their relations, and on embedded media files. The resulting corpus will be a useful resource not only for quantitative but also for qualitative CMC research. For representation and annotation of the data the project builds on best practices from previous projects in the field and cooperates with a language technology partner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes an ongoing project that aims at building a reference corpus of German computer-mediated communication (CMC) as a new component of an already existing reference corpus of written contemporary German. The ‘Deutsches Referenzkorpus zur internetbasierten Kommunikation’ (DeRiK) shall include data from the most prominent CMC genres amongst German Internet users and, thus, close a gap in the coverage of the corpus resources in the project ‘Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache’ (DWDS), which are maintained and provided by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The focus of the article is on the role of the DeRiK component within the DWDS framework, on sampling issues, and on CMC-specific issues of corpus annotation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]