Repository details
The World Atlas of Language Structures
Name of repository
The World Atlas of Language Structures
Additional name(s)
- WALS
- WALS online
- The World Atlas of Language Structures online
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Subject(s)
Description
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars) by a team of 55 authors (many of them the leading authorities on the subject).
Contact
- https://wals.info/contact
- wals@shh.mpg.de
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Repository size
192 features; 152 chapters; 2.662 languages
Repository type(s)
- disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
Research data repository language(s)
- English
Data and/or service provider
- data provider
- service provider
Institution name
Additional name(s)
- MPDL
Contact(s)
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- technical
- general
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2008
Institution name
Additional name(s)
- MPI-EVA
Contact(s)
- http://blog.wals.info/contact/
- robert_forkel@eva.mpg.de
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- general
- technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2008
Institution name
Additional name(s)
- MPG
Identifier(s)
- ROR:01hhn8329
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2008
Policies (1)
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Database access
Type of access to research data repository
open
Data access (1)
Type of access to data
open
Data licenses (1)
DataLicense
Data upload (1)
Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
- other
Persistent identifier system(s)
- none
Name of the repository software
- unknown
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
Enhanced Publication
yes
Quality management
yes
Application programming interfaces (2)
Metadata standards (1)
Alerting services (1)
Type of alerting service
Remarks
Remarks
WALS is harvested by OLAC. The first version of WALS was published as a book with CD-ROM in 2005 by Oxford University Press. The first online version was published in April 2008. Both are superseeded by the current online version, published in April 2011.
WALS Online is a joint effort of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the Max Planck Digital Library. It is a separate publication, edited by Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (Munich: Max Planck Digital Library, 2011) ISBN: 978-3-9813099-1-1. The main programmer is Robert Forkel.
Entry date
2012-11-05
Last update
2022-04-19
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