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Rules Illustration

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Basic rules of data coding included in the guidelines, taking cognate coding in wordlists as an example. (a) illustrates why long tables should be favored throughout all applications. (b) underlines the importance of anticipating multiple tables along with metadata indicating how they should be linked.

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Forkel et al. 2018. Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics. <i>Scientific Data</i>.

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