The SandersSpooren subcorpus was compiled for a study of the causal connectives 'want' and 'omdat' in several types of discourse. It consists of cases from news, spontaneous conversation and chat data. It comprises 553 cases in total of omdat and want from newspapers, spontaneous conversations and chat interaction;100 cases of omdat and 102 cases of want from newspapers (D-Coi); 100 cases of omdat and 100 cases of want from conversations (CGN; 51 cases of omdat and 100 cases of want from chat interaction (VU-Chat-corpusI) The DiscAn corpus is a collection of subcorpora of Dutch language that have been annotated at the level of discourse. These subcorpora form a set of Dutch corpus analyses of coherence relations and discourse connectives that have been compiled and annotated by researchers at several universities in The Netherlands and Belgium. In the DiscAn project, funded by CLARIN-NL, this set of corpus analyses has been standardized (both in terms of raw data – the texts – and analyses) and opened up for further scientific research.