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Just released: Glottolog 5.3

Get the full data at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18840935
or the CLDF dataset at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18840967
or browse at https://glottolog.org

glottolog/glottolog: Glottolog database 5.3

Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2026. Glottolog 5.3. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)

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Note that you can easily inspect the individual datasets from which the aggregation was assembled by browsing https://github.com/D-PLACE/dplace-cldf/tree/master/raw/phylogenies and https://github.com/D-PLACE/dplace-cldf/tree/master/raw/datasets
dplace-cldf/raw/phylogenies at master · D-PLACE/dplace-cldf

D-PLACE data serialized as CLDF StructureDataset. Contribute to D-PLACE/dplace-cldf development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Bugfix at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17617220
The previous release did not contain the summary trees for the added phylogenies.
D-PLACE aggregated dataset

Cite the source of the dataset as: Kathryn R. Kirby, Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill, Fiona M. Jordan, Stephanie Gomes-Ng, Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Damián E. Blasi, Carlos A. Botero, Claire Bowern, Carol R. Ember, Dan Leehr, Bobbi S. Low, Joe McCarter, William Divale, and Michael C. Gavin. (2016). D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE, 11(7): e0158391. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158391.

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We just released a new version of the aggregated [D-PLACE](https://d-place.org) dataset. Find the CLDF dataset at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17610140
See what's new at
https://github.com/D-PLACE/dplace-cldf/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v320
D-PLACE -

literally how do you publish a paper about a software package without posting the code. the paper is totally meaningless, you might as well have just made up the whole thing. how do you even review it? and why? i'm not going to take someone's word that software does something when the whole purpose of writing about software is to say that people can do something with it

‪Just learned that our study introducing Lexibank 2 (Blum et al. @fblum ) has passed peer review with Open Research Europe. We will revise with reviewers' comments, but the study is accepted, Lexibank 2 is now official.

Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data

https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.20216.1

Just released: Glottolog 5.2

Get the full data at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15525265
or the CLDF dataset at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15525250
or browse at https://glottolog.org

glottolog/glottolog: Glottolog database 5.2

Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)

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A new paper with Michele Pulini appeared as part of the proceedings on Ancient Language Processing.

Using Cross-Linguistic Data Formats to Enhance the Annotation of Ancient Chinese Documents Written on Bamboo Slips

https://aclanthology.org/2025.alp-1.4/

Using Cross-Linguistic Data Formats to Enhance the Annotation of Ancient Chinese Documents Written on Bamboo Slips

Michele Pulini, Johann-Mattis List. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing. 2025.

ACL Anthology
@fxru probably
not really basic in many contexts, but https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/ - if you have the shell available, lots of things become a lot simpler.
The Unix Shell: Summary and Setup

@stefanmuelller ich denke, die Aussage macht innerhalb von bestimmten software-Kontexten Sinn - und viele Leute "begreifen" technische Details wohl hauptsächlich durch user interfaces von software. InkScape hat eine Einstellmöglichkeit für DPI. Klar, wenn man die verstellt, werden parallel Height und Width verstellt :)