Source code of the Crossgram Webapp

TODO: add link when webapp is public

Rebuilding the database(s)

Prerequisite: Concepticon

Crossgram relies on data from the [Glottolog][glottlog] reference catalogue. It will find it using cldfcatalog.

Internal vs external datasets

FIXME at the time of writing this, the public instance doesn't actually exist yet

There are two sets of datasets for Crossgram: The internal datasets and the external datasets. External datasets are the ones that have been released to the public. Internal datasets are the ones that are still being worked on and that get served to a separate instance of the webapp, so the editors can give the authors a preview on what their datasets will look like.

The metadata for both internal and external datasets is contained in the private crossgram/crossgram-intern repository. The clld initdb script will look for a clone of this repository in ../../crossgram/crossgram-intern. The crossgram-intern repo also contains documentaion on how to curate the datasets.

Database initialisation

Thie clld initdb script will ask two questions:

1. Do you want to load the internal or external datasets into the database? (e for external, i for internal)
2. Do you want to add all or just one specific dataset to the database? This is useful for quick testing during development – repopulating the entire database can take a minute or two.

We usually load the internal and external datasets into separate databases:

$ clld initdb development.ini
...
[i]nternal or [e]xternal data (default: e): e
submission id or 'all' for all submissions (default: all): all

$ clld initdb development-intern.ini
...
[i]nternal or [e]xternal data (default: e): i
submission id or 'all' for all submissions (default: all): all