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Dear Lingtyp community,<br>
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We just released the <a
href="http://clld.org/2017/03/29/glottolog-3-0.html">new version</a>
of Glottolog.org.<br>
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This is the first release of Glottolog completely based on data
curated in the <b>public GitHub repository clld/glottolog</b>:
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Glottolog data is curated transparently and publicly</span></span></div>
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including a full history of changes.</span></span></div>
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Community participation is now possible (and welcome!) via
GitHub’s support for collaboration (by opening issues or
proposing changes via pull requests.</span></span></div>
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Accessing the data is now possible directly by cloning the
data repository or downloading of a release.</span></span></div>
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data in the repository can also be accessed
programmatically using the Python client library
pyglottolog.</span></span></div>
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3.0 of the data repository is available at <a
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href="https://github.com/clld/glottolog/releases/tag/v3.0">https://github.com/clld/glottolog/releases/tag/v3.0</a></span></span></div>
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introduced a couple of new features for the <b>Glottolog
web application</b>:</span></span></div>
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Glottolog now has a logo - the Malayalam letter ga,
Unicode U+0D17.</span></span></div>
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search for references with a query that will be matched
with content in any field of the bibliographical record.</span></span></div>
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Languoid detail pages now provide a link to the underlying
data file in the data repository (marked with ).<br>
– Glottolog references (</span></span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://glottolog.org/langdoc">http://glottolog.org/langdoc</a>)
now contain over 40,000 references from Benjamins (now
totallying over 300,000)<br>
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3.0 of the Glottolog web application is available at <a
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href="https://github.com/clld/glottolog3/releases/tag/v3.0">https://github.com/clld/glottolog3/releases/tag/v3.0</a></span></span></div>
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Robert Forkel, <br>
Harald Hammarström and <br>
Martin Haspelmath<br>
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Martin Haspelmath (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:haspelmath@shh.mpg.de">haspelmath@shh.mpg.de</a>)
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Kahlaische Strasse 10
D-07745 Jena
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Leipzig University
IPF 141199
Nikolaistrasse 6-10
D-04109 Leipzig
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