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        Date: 2025-06-05 19:22:06+00:00
        From: Geoffrey Rockwell <grockwel@ualberta.ca>
        Subject: Alert: Deleting Older Voyant Corpora

Please spread the word:

Voyant will be deleting all corpora that haven’t been used in over a year on
August 15th.

The current Voyant Server has been in operation for three years now and our
cached data is overflowing and starting to cause serious problems. Because of
this, we have reluctantly decided to remove all corpora that have not been used
in over a year.

Anytime a user accesses a corpus, the "last access date" of that corpus is reset
to the current date. In order to guarantee that your corpus is not deleted we
ask that everyone simply load it in Voyant and click a few buttons to change
something. This will reset the "last access date" for that corpus and prevent it
from being marked for deletion.

Warning: the corpora that we delete will be unrecoverable. Please access and
briefly use any corpus you want us to keep cached.

To rebuild it you will need to re-upload the texts and index a new corpus.

Moving forward, we have plans to implement a more robust system for Voyant
Consortium members to be able to distinguish between temporary and permanent
corpora. Explanations about this new system will be shared with Consortium
members and as part of our newsletter. However, until that feature is finished,
we have no choice but to rely on file access dates to identify which corpora are
being used and which are not. Users of Voyant are encouraged to sign up for a
free membership in the Consortium. (The Consortium site is at voyant-tools.info)

If you have any questions please contact voyanttools@gmail.com

Links:
Voyant Tools: voyant-tools.org
Voyant Consortium: voyant-tools.info

PS. Please share this Alert with others who use Voyant
https://ggle.in/VoyantAlert

Geoffrey Rockwell (He/him)
Co-Director of the Voyant Consortium
Philosophy and Digital Humanities
University of Alberta


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