The Auslan Corpus Annotation Guidelines describe the annotation protocols used in the deposit. They have been updated almost annually since they were first written up in 2005. The last update was in November 2016. The latest version of the Annotation Guidelines can be found at . Researchers requesting access to the annotation files that are available in this deposit dating from 2008 or 2012 should be aware that the later versions of the corpus are often quite different to the earlier archived versions. It is important to note that this ELAR deposit titled Auslan Corpus is a historical document. The corpus itself is changing and growing because further detailed annotation work by the depositor and colleagues is continuing and much of it has yet to be uploaded to the deposit as an update. (Strictly speaking, these annotations are additional to and independent of the original documentation project.) It will take many years to complete due to the expensive, time-consuming nature of the task. Only after the depositor and colleagues have completed their program of research and publication will the additional annotations be uploaded to the ELAR site. Thus, what is referred to as the Auslan Corpus in some publications is not the same thing as the resources in this deposit. Therefore, researchers who wish to access detailed annotation sets for research, or for bona fide peer review of research publications that are based on these, should contact the authors of any publication directly. Research that involves collaboration—i.e., which involves the depositor and/or colleagues in the proposed research and publication, or which contributes to the Auslan Archive and Corpus by incorporating new annotations into the corpus for eventual inclusion in the ELAR deposit, or both—will be given preference.