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Recipes for cooking with CLDF data
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CLDF with spreadsheet software #8

Closed chrzyki closed 6 years ago

chrzyki commented 6 years ago

Prepare a tutorial for working with CLDF in 'plain' spreadsheet software (e.g. Excel, Calc, etc.).

Things to consider:

xrotwang commented 6 years ago

Use cases to address:

(1) I am a field linguist with a spreadsheet of words and their meanings that I collected long ago. I would like to make the data available for re-use by adopting the CLDF format. Where do I start?

(2) I am an expert on languages of a particular region/linguistic family. I have a spreadsheet in which rows are languages, columns are concepts, and cells contain the word for concept X in language Y. I would to make these data available for reuse by ensuring they follow the CLDF format. Where do I start?

chrzyki commented 6 years ago

Closed in https://github.com/cldf/cookbook/commit/cc55e372d9a3c4c0d3e4151cd97273af5af5d044 and https://github.com/cldf/cookbook/commit/a8016e038b1e4cf8ea90317951cc134d35ed3a6e.