bambooforest/cldf_segbo

Creating CLDF data for SegBo using cldfbench

Overview

This file documents how we create CLDF data format for the SegBo database:

• https://github.com/segbo-db/segbo*

We foloow the cldfbench tutorial:

• https://github.com/cldf/cldfbench/blob/master/doc/tutorial.md

See also:

• https://github.com/cldf/cldfbench
• https://cldf.clld.org/
• https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/item/item_3231858_1/component/file_3231859/shh2600.pdf

Steps taken

First follow the instructions and install the command line tool.

• https://pypi.org/project/cldfbench/

Next, we followed the instructions in the tutorial.

cldfbench new

Here we give the ID "SegBo" and cldfbench creates the file structure.

├── __pycache__
│   └── test.cpython-38.pyc
├── cldf
│   └── README.md
├── cldfbench_SegBo.py
├── etc
│   └── README.md
├── metadata.json
├── raw
│   └── README.md
├── setup.cfg
├── setup.py
└── test.py

The cldfbench tutorial then instructs us to edit the SegBo/cldfbench_SegBo.py Python file, for example to update the the cmd_download function to download the SegBo data to the SegBo/raw folder.

cldfbench download SegBo/cldfbench_SegBo.py

Next, we implement the cmd_makecldf function to create a StructureDataset.

Note that one also needs to clone Glottolog:

• https://github.com/glottolog/glottolog

And install pyglottolog.

• https://pypi.org/project/pyglottolog/

cldfbench makecldf SegBo/cldfbench_SegBo.py --glottolog ../glottolog