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Dative

Description

Dative is a graphical interface for linguistic fieldwork and language documentation applications. At present, Dative works with the Online Linguistic Database (OLD). For more information, see the Dative web site.

Features

• Collaboration and data sharing
• Advanced and smart search
• Automatic morpheme cross-referencing
• Build morphological parsers and phonologies
• CSV import
• Text creation
• Media file (i.e., audio, video, image)-to-text association.
• User access control
• Documentation
• Open source

For Developers

Dative is open source and under active development.

Technologies

• Backbone
• CoffeeScript
• Mocha/Chai tests
• Grunt task automation

Install

Dative has become old and unloved. It is currently difficult to build. For this reason, I am releasing pre-built versions of Dative---i.e., directory structures each containing a single, concatenated and minified JavaScript file along with the needed static files (images, CSS, etc.) and dependency licenses---under subdirectories of releases/.

To test out a pre-built Dative, extract the release, move into its directory, and use Python to serve it locally at http://0.0.0.0:8000/::

$ cd releases/
$ tar -zxvf release-<HASH>.tar.gz
$ cd release-<HASH>/
$ python3 -m http.server

Original Install Instructions

First, make sure you have NodeJS >= 0.10 installed. Then install the Grunt command line interface (CLI):

$ sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

Then clone the dative repo and move into the clone:

$ git clone https://github.com/jrwdunham/dative.git
$ cd dative

Then install the dependencies:

$ yarn

Then optionally install the test dependencies:

$ cd test
$ yarn
$ cd ..

Serve, test, build, etc.

To serve the app with livereload, run:

$ grunt serve

The serve task generates source map files that Chrome's developer tools can recognize. This means that you can view the CoffeeScript source in the browser and can set breakpoints, etc. For some docs on CoffeeScript source maps and JavaScript debugging in Chrome, see:

• http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/sourcemaps/
• https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/javascript-debugging

To run the tests and view the Mocha print-out in the browser, run:

$ grunt serve:test

After running the above command, the browser will automatically refresh whenever a source file or a test file is saved. This allows you to code with constant updates showing which tests are passing.

To build the app in the dist/ directory:

$ grunt build

To build the app in the dist/ directory and serve the result:

$ grunt serve:dist

To validate the CoffeeScript using coffeelint:

$ grunt lint

To run the tests and view the results in the command line (currently not working):

$ grunt test

To generate the docco HTML docs using the comments in your source files:

$ grunt docs

The above command generates files in the docs/ directory. Because docco overwrites files of the same name in different directories, I have configured the Gruntfile to rename each file for doc generation using the file's path.