collabutils

Utilities for collaborative curation of data - in particular for curating cross-linguistic data via cldfbench.

Installation

Install via

pip install collabutils

Note that some modules have "extra" requirements, thus can only be used when these extras are installed as well. Refer to the docs linked below for details.

Curating tabular data

In a cldfbench-enabled curation workflow, it is often required to curate the "configuration data", i.e. data in a dataset's etc/ directory collaboratively - or even share it (e.g. language lists) across multiple datasets.

Thus, curating this data in collaborative spreadsheet apps, and only pulling it into the dataset repository when cldfbench download is run, can be a solution.

collabutils provides functionality to do this easily

• from Google Sheets
• from OwnCloud installations

Curating lexical data

While simple wordlists are somewhat easy to maintain as single table, this gets considerably trickier when cognate codings are added. Thus, curating lexical data with cognate codings can profit from specialized apps.

collabutils provides functionality to pull down lexical data curated

• in EDICTOR

Curating bibliographies

Sources referenced in datasets are another type of data, that may be better curated with tools tailored to bibliographical data.

collabutils provides functionality to sync bibliographies between a dataset's sources file and

• Zotero
• Overleaf: coming soon!