Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics

• DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.205
• Publication Date: 2018-10-16T13:03:25Z
• Authors: Robert Forkel; Johann-Mattis List; Simon J. Greenhill; Christoph Rzymski; Sebastian Bank; Michael Cysouw; Harald Hammarström; Martin Haspelmath; Gereon A. Kaiping; Russell D. Gray
• Keywords: Data type

Abstract The amount of available digital data for the languages world is constantly increasing. Unfortunately, most are provided in a large variety formats and therefore not amenable comparison re-use. Cross-Linguistic Data Formats initiative proposes new standards two basic types historical typological language (word lists, structural datasets) framework to incorporate more (e.g. parallel texts, dictionaries). specification cross-linguistic comes along with software package validation manipulation, ontology which links general frameworks, usage examples best practices.