Die CompLing.eu-Plattform, kurz für „The Comparative Linguistic Databank of Goethe University“, versammelt einige Datenbanken und Korpora für die sprachwissenschaftliche Forschung, die an der Uni in Frankfurt am Main gehostet werden:
The most important sections currently include the DiACL database, the TITUS 2.0 corpus, and the DiACL/TITUS Polygon Archive. The platform also links to a number of corpora of the TITUS database, which have functional interfaces and are therefore not included in the new TITUS 2.0 corpus.
Two additional resources, which are under construction, will be made available via the platform. These include an archive of field work data from various languages and continents, as well as a database of writing systems, stemming from the TITUS database.
Overview of the organization of the CompLing platform
FAIR principles, versioning, and quoting
All data in the CompLing database meets the FAIR principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability. Data is made available open access at earliest possible time, and data is consistently updated and improved. For that purpose, data in the CompLing platform does not have version numbers, and quoting must be done by the date of entrance.
Quoting of material or data in the platform must follow the guidelines of the individual sections of the databank (DiACL, TITUS 2.0, or other databases), alternatively quote published articles that make sections of the data available.
The original TITUS database is still up and running, but from 2025, all improvements and changes to corpora in TITUS will be done from the new platform TITUS 2.0. See under Corpus for links to databases of the original TITUS database that are not included in TITUS 2.0.
History
The CompLing database has a complex and rich prehistory, where datasets stem from various sources. The database section DiACL has a prehistory of being built up and constructed at Lund University by Gerd Carling and her team between 2011-2022. After 2023, the database was moved to Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, with the move of Gerd Carling from Lund to the Institute for Empirical Linguistics. The TITUS database was constructed for several decades under the leadership of Jost Gippert and his team at the Institute for Empirical Linguistics, Frankfurt am Main.
The Polygon Archive data has two sources. For the purpose of constructing the database DiACL, an interface that enabled the display and download of language polygon data was constructed. At the time of the transfer of the DiACL database to Frankfurt, the resource contained about 150 language polygons. Since 2023, existing language polygons in TITUS have been georeferenced and added to the DiACL database, completing almost the entire world map.
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