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A web framework to display Cross Linguistic Linked Data.
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# clld



The `clld` toolkit - a web framework for the publication of

[Cross-Linguistic Linked Data](https://clld.org).



Documentation for the code base and its use is available at https://clld.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

The source for this documentation is in the `docs` directory.



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## How to cite



To cite the `clld` software, please cite the presentation introducing it



> Forkel, R., & Bank, S. (2014, October 7). The clld toolkit. Language Comparison with Linguistic Databases: RefLex and Typological Databases, Nijmegen. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10846846



## Usage



Once the initial steps (installation, bootstrapping a new project)

have been done helped by [the online documentation](https://clld.readthedocs.io/en/latest/),

the biggest resource to guide further development of a `clld` app

is the [wealth of existing apps](https://github.com/clld/clld/network/dependents).

(Note: GitHub's "Used by" links - created from the dependency graph data - are really

helpful here!)

The following pointers are meant as a

starting point to solve specific problems by perusing the code of other

apps.



- **Integrating language metadata from Glottolog**: There's 

  [a plugin](https://github.com/clld/clld-glottologfamily-plugin) for that

  and here's the list of apps on GitHub using it: https://github.com/clld/clld-glottologfamily-plugin/network/dependents

- **Displaying (data on) phylogenetic laguage trees**: There's

  [a plugin](https://github.com/clld/clld-phylogeny-plugin) for that

  and here's the list of apps on GitHub using it: https://github.com/clld/clld-phylogeny-plugin/network/dependents

- **Displaying cognacy relations between words**: There's

  [a plugin](https://github.com/clld/clld-cognacy-plugin) for that

  and here's the list of apps on GitHub using it: https://github.com/clld/clld-cognacy-plugin/network/dependents

- **Displaying phoneme inventories as IPA charts**: There's

  [a plugin](https://github.com/clld/clld-ipachart-plugin) for that

  and here's the list of apps on GitHub using it: https://github.com/clld/clld-ipachart-plugin/network/dependents

- **Integrating audio recordings of lexical data**: There's

  [a plugin](https://github.com/clld/clld-audio-plugin) for that

  and here's the list of apps on GitHub using it: https://github.com/clld/clld-audio-plugin/network/dependents

- **Rendering CLDF Markdown in the context of the app**: There's

  [a plugin](https://github.com/clld/clld-markdown-plugin) for that.

- **Aggregating data from multiple CLDF datasets**: The app serving the

  [Intercontinental Dictionary Series](https://ids.clld.org) does this.

  Very simple per-dataset metadata of the form

  ```json

  {

    "id": "ids-cosgrovevoro",

    "repo": "https://github.com/intercontinental-dictionary-series/cosgrovevoro",

    "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.4280576",

    "order": 2

  }

  ```

  is read and used to populate the database, see

  https://github.com/clld/ids/blob/master/ids/scripts/initializedb.py#L38-L67

- **Aggregating data from different CLDF modules**: While most `clld` apps are

  concerned with just one type of data (e.g. typological questionnaires as in WALS,

  or wordlists as in IDS), some have a different focus (e.g.

  [TuLaR (Tupían Language Resources)](https://tular.clld.org)). The TuLaR

  app aggregates data which is curated in several datasets, bundled under

  a [Zenodo community](https://zenodo.org/communities/tular), see https://github.com/tupian-language-resources/tular/blob/main/tular/scripts/initializedb.py

- **Using Charis SIL fonts**: using [SIL's Charis fonts](https://software.sil.org/charis/) on a `clld` page is simple. Here's an example

  https://ids.clld.org/valuesets/1-100-316

  - Include the relevant style sheet (which will pull in the font resources):

    https://github.com/clld/ids/blob/b2884e06a53a0a3c7a0dc27955c314869d0a31aa/ids/templates/ids.mako#L10-L12

  - Then assign the appropriate css class:

    https://github.com/clld/ids/blob/b2884e06a53a0a3c7a0dc27955c314869d0a31aa/ids/templates/unit/detail_html.mako#L6



## See



- The [CLLD project](https://clld.org)

- [Online documentation](https://clld.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

- [Presentation on clld from 2014](https://clld.org/docs/reflex/clld.pdf)