xrotwang / goeldi

Data from MPEGKin

MPEGKin

This repository contains the data from the MPEGKin project, which is included in the Kinbank project.

Please use the following citation for this dataset:

Birchall, J., Araujo, L. H., Passmore, S., & Jordan, F. M. (2022). MPEGKin: A database of kinship terminology from the Tupian and Cariban language families [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6474213

To add a new language:

1. Add it to ./etc/languages.csv

2. Add a new csv file into ./raw/, using this format:

parameter,word,ipa,description,alternative,source_raw,source_bibtex,comment

3. Add the reference into ./raw/sources.bib

4. Regenerate CLDF:

Run this shell command:

make cldf

To Generate a CLDF dataset:

The shell utility make and the programming language python (v3.6+) are required.

1. Install the python requirements:

The libraries needed for the python merge script are cldfbench and pylexibank. These will be installed into a virtual environment using this command:

make install

2. Generate CLDF:

make cldf