[Lingtyp] EvoBib: A Bibliographic Database and Quote Collection

[John Du Bois]

Sounds like fun.
For the quote section, how about adding a "browse" function, or even just a
randomly generated "quote of the day"?
John

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John W. Du Bois
Professor of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California 93106
USA
dubois at ucsb.edu

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 11:19 AM Mattis List <mattis.list at lingpy.org> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> My personal bibliographic database and collection of quotes in the
> literature has just been officially released (by me, in version 1.0.0),
> and I thought that this tool, or maybe also simply the idea behind it,
> might be of interest for some of you, which is why I share it here.
>
> http://bibliography.lingpy.org
>
> What the tool essentially does is offering references from the diverse
> quantitative/qualitative literature concerning language comparison from
> a cross-linguistic perspective.
>
> The reference browser contains my personal collection of quotes that I
> regularly assemble whenever reading a text, in order to be able to use
> it later in publications, or to quickly look up, who said what.
>
> Thus, if you want to look on what August Schleicher said about language
> trees, you can look up his famous quote (not yet translated, I do that
> step by step, whenever I find time), you can just open the following
> URL: http://bibliography.lingpy.org/?idf=473
>
> In this way, one can also share quotes from the literature in discussion
> with colleagues.
>
> All data is also shared on Zenodo (but I delete all personal comments
> from it, as these are only for my personal work), and a few of you may
> find themselves in the collection.
>
> If you are interested in the general idea of collecting quotes from the
> literature in this form, feel free to get in touch with me. I do not
> have ambitions to make it an open system, as I also lack the
> possibilities to run everything, but if some of you have their own
> collections, I would be interested in sharing experiences, and the like
> (and the code is of course online on github:
> https://github.com/lingpy/evobib).
>
> All the best,
>
> Mattis
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