Technical documentation

The FieldWorks Language and Culture Model (LCM) is an object-oriented data model of all the linguistic, lexical, textual and grammatical information stored in a FieldWorks project. The model is described in this document. (As of April 2024 the document is quite out of date, but an update is in the works.)

For further documentation, refer to:

• The FieldWorks Model documentation help file, which includes LCM class definitions and properties as well as UML diagrams of various areas of the model. (This was built for the FieldWorks 7.2 model, so a number of things are out of date: Interlinear text is not correct, directional links for reversal indexes are wrong, and some newer things are missing. It also has all of the classes for Scripture used by Translation Editor which no longer exists.)
  • (Note that on Windows 10/11 you need to right-click the downloaded file, choose Properties and check the unblock box in order to open the file.)
• The MasterLCModel XML file (this is the latest model definition).
• This spreadsheet, which has two tabs, one for classes and the other for fields. (Also the latest model.)

Additional technical documents on a variety of topics are available on the FieldWorks support site.