Developing Linguistic Corpora: a Guide to Good Practice edited by Martin Wynne.
From the webpage:
Preface
Martin Wynne (AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics, University of Oxford, UK)Chapter 1
Corpus and Text: Basic Principles
John Sinclair (Tuscan Word Centre)Chapter 2
Adding Linguistic Annotation
Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University)Chapter 3
Metadata for Corpus Work
Lou Burnard (University of Oxford)Chapter 4
Character Encoding in Corpus Construction
Anthony McEnery and Richard Xiao (Lancaster University)Chapter 5
Spoken Language Corpora
Paul Thompson (University of Reading)Chapter 6
Archiving, Distribution and Preservation
Martin Wynne (University of Oxford)Appendix to chapter one: How to make a corpus
John Sinclair (Tuscan Word Centre)
You are unlikely to need to consult a linguistic corpora or build one most days in topic map practice.
But should the occasion arise, some guidance will be nice to have at hand.
I encountered this resource from the Arts and Humanities Data Service while researching “will” as a non-normative substitute for “shall.”