Fieldlinguist's iField: An offline/online fieldlinguistics database which adapts to its user's I-Language.

What is Fieldlinguist's iField?

iField is a free, open source project developed collectively by field linguists and software developers to make a modular, user-friendly app which can be used to collect, search and share your data.

Who can I use Fieldlinguist's iField with?

• Fieldlinguist's iField is a Chrome app, which means it works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPad, and also offline.
• Multiple collaborators can add to the same corpus, and you can encrypt any piece of data, keep it private within your corpus, or make it public to share with the community and other researchers.

How can Fieldlinguist's iField save me time?

Fieldlinguist's iField uses machine learning and computational linguistics to adapt to your existing organization of the data which you import and predict how to gloss it. iField already supports import and export of many common formats, including ELAN, Praat, Toolbox, FLEx, Filemaker Pro, LaTeX, xml, csv and more, but if you have another format you'd like to import or export, Contact Us.

What are the principles behind Fieldlinguist's iField?

We designed Fieldlinguist's iField from the ground up to be user-friendly, but also to conform to EMELD and DataOne best practices on formatting, archiving, open access, and security. For more information, see the data management sections of our white paper. We vow never to use your private data, you can find out more in our privacy policy.

Install

To find out more about the features and to install it, visit its website at http://fieldlinguist.com

Report Bugs and give us Feedback

Fieldlinguist's iField beta was officially launched in English and Spanish on August 2st 2012 in Patzun, Guatemala. So far we have had input from fieldlinguists working on Morpho-syntax, LF and Prosody. We are always looking for more feedback and your help finding bugs. In particular we need to know if the app is truely user-friendly, and if you have suggestions on how we can improve the app to save you time entering your data, and searching for your data when writing handouts/articles etc. Form to Contact us/Report bugs

Team

• Alan Bale (McGill, Concordia)
• M.E. Cathcart (U Delaware)
• Gina Cook (iLanguage Lab LTD)
• Jessica Coon (McGill)
• Theresa Deering (iLanguage Lab LTD)
• Yuliya Manyakina (Concordia, Stony Brook)
• Hisako Noguchi (Concordia)
• Michael Wagner (McGill)

References

See Wiki for References, Similar Software that we investigated, Software Design Docs and Software Requirements Specification

Funding

We have some small funding TBA

License

This project is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which is an very non-restrictive open source license which basically says you can adapt the software to any use you see fit. You can also download it and install it on your Departments servers.

How to Contribute Code

• Signup for a GitHub account (GitHub is free for OpenSource)
• Click on the "Fork" button to create your own copy.
• Follow the 4 GitHub Help Tutorials for how to install and use Git on your computer.
• Edit the code on your computer, and push to your origin (git push origin master).
• Click on the "Pull Request" button, and leave us a note about what you changed.
• Feel the glow :)