Re: TECH: "best" way to organize directory of conlangs

* Jim Henry said on 2008-09-04 17:55:28 +0200
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:59 AM, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> > * Jim Henry said on 2008-09-03 23:08:03 +0200
> > > The Conlang Atlas of Language Structures is really spiffy
> > > but maybe overkill for what you want.
>
> > Adding a page with just the language-name + the background
> > would take me maybe 5-10 minutes...
Correction, it took 2 minutes:

http://cals.conlang.org/jrklist/

That's a dump of languages that have a background set, + a link
to their CALS-page. Unfortunately only a third of the languages
at CALS have set a background in the first place.

> And maybe, as Rick suggested, make the background field (and
> the tags field, mabye?) multilingual, so you could have
> background descriptions in multiple languages...?
I wound up starting on a generic system for storing translations
(and converted the greeting to using it), the beginnings can be
seen at:

http://cals.conlang.org/language/testarossa/translations/

All languages have the ./translations/-page but unless they have
a greeting, the page is empty.

Unfortunately that system won't work for a language-background,
as each background would then have to be made its own
translation exercise and that just doesn't feel right.

But: I can make an API (or just a JSON-file) available, then
anyone could read it at their end, add things to it and spit the
new version out at some other end.


t.

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