In 1995, when the Royal Spanish Academy started the project of CREA and CORDE, these were the needed tools. Spanish language needed a serie of corpuses in the net, for the shake of becoming noticed for the rest of the world, and helping the people that was learning the language. The creation of both corpuses also meant a modification of the working system of the technical teams that formed the Royas Spanish Academy and the different academies of the Spanish language. In general, it meant a change in the working systems of any institution or group who was inevstigating the language.
However, the design of the two corpuses has become old-fashioned for today’s necessities. This being noticed by the Royas Spanish Academy, it has proposed the creation of a new Spanish corpus, with 25 million of lexical forms for each use between the years 2000 and 2011. This was proposed in Medellin in March, during the Academies’ Congress. This Spanish Corpus of 21th Century will have, in its first stage, 300 million of forms, which guarantees that the new editions of DRAE would have the required empirical fundament. The proposal was approved in unanimity.
The webpage design, control, acquisition and texts codification, and the construction of the informatic tools which would allow the search in the corpus from any place in the world, requires a considerable inversion and the work of a large group of people. The creation of the Spanish Corpus of the XXI century is going to be distributed into different teams which would converge in a central team. The central team would be formed by five or eight members of the Royal Spanish Acdemy and they would coordinate the rest of the teams. The Academy would be the responsible of the design, materials selection, the establishment of the codification system, the trainning of the rest of the teams, the control of the work of the teams, etc. The teams would codificate texts of different linguistic zones.
The project of the Spanish Corpus of 21th Century represents a project that shares perfectly the different purposes of the Royal Spanish Academy, the Spanish Academies Asociation and the Santander bank. It means the construction of a better and large media centered in the knowledge of the Spanish language by the Internet tools.

