datasette-cldf

Datasette plugin to explore CLDF datasets

CLDF datasets can be easily loaded into SQLite databases (running the cldf createdb command provided with pycldf). Thus, they can be readily explored via the web interface provided by datasette.

This plugin exploits the "semantics" of CLDF to customize datasette, e.g. to display glottocode columns as hyperlinks to https://glottolog.org or to display rows of an ExampleTable component as interlinear glossed text, i.e. with aligned morphemes and glosses.

Usage

datasette-cldf customizes datasette by providing

• custom datasette metadata
• custom templates
• and custom configuration.

Thus, instead of calling the datasette cli directly, ỳou call the datasette.serve subcommand, which this package registers with cldfbench:

cldfbench datasette.serve PATH/TO/cldf-metadata.json

Features

We'll show the customizations provided by this plugin with a series of screenshots of datasette serving the World Atlas of Language Structures.

• Languages are displayed on a map

• Language details also show a map

• and link to feature values of the language

• Feature pages list possible values and their distribution

• Sources are formatted according to the Unified Style Sheet and as BibTeX records

• Examples are formatted as interlinear glossed text according to the Leipzig Glossing Rules