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more complex corpora, because of the variety of creators and because the materials may include scripts, links combining multiple sources involving different
time scales and spatial constellations (Brügger & Finnemann 2013, Kitchen 2014). Such corpora are widespread, some being temporary and personalized as
a google search, some being public and eventually cumulative e.g. edited news sites, and social media sites (Finnemann 2015). Some types of net-art are
script-based, non-cumulative and fast disappearing corpora (Paul 2008), others are complex due to researcher defined goals as for instance climate corpora
which incorporate data of social behavior in climate models (Steffen et al. 2015) while others are ever-changing due to a variety of hypertext configurations
allowing distinct updating frequencies for any delimited fraction on a screen interface as in the case of finance systems (Knorr Cetina 2014). Assuming that
some of these corpora represent a significant contribution to the cultural heritage of today they may deserve to be preserved and utilized in future studies.
The question then is raised how they are identified and described by whom and how to further analyze and curate such new types of digital cultural corpora.
(Full references will be included in the full paper).