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SIL FieldWorks 4.0

SIL FieldWorks is a suite of software tools that work together to help language teams worldwide. Additional applications are under development for future versions.

This suite of programs consists of

• SIL FieldWorks Data Notebook
• FieldWorks Language Explorer
• FieldWorks WorldPad

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SIL FieldWorks Data Notebook

A data management tool primarily designed and developed for cultural fieldwork.

Features

• Reference fields
• Custom filtering and sorting
• Classification of entries with anthropological categories
• External and internal linking

Helps you

• Organize qualitative data effectively and thoroughly
• Categorize data on many levels for easy retrieval and review
• Display data in different ways to find patterns
• Link data to summary reports and ethnographic statements

Benefits

You can use FieldWorks Data Notebook to gain insights from your anthropological field notes to:

• Live and work appropriately in a new cultural community
• Help literacy and educational programs by documenting language attitudes, social patterns, and annual cycles of community
• Help with translation by documenting cultural concepts and terminology

More about FieldWorks Data Notebook

FieldWorks Language Explorer

An open source desktop application designed to help field linguists perform many common tasks, including

• elliciting and recording lexical information
• creating dictionaries
• interlinearizing texts
• studying morphology

More about FieldWorks Language Explorer

FieldWorks WorldPad

A simple word processor that supports the SIL-developed Graphite technology for displaying complex scripts. More about FieldWorks WorldPad.