Quickstart Worldlist of Melanesia Data Repository

This repository provides vocabulary data from the Quickstart Worldlist of Melanesia, converted into a standardized XML format for easy consumption by various tools.

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The Quickstart Worldlist of Melanesia Data contained within this repository (in its source and converted formats) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

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Title: Quickstart Worldlist of Melanesia

Authors: Yoder, Brendon E., Miller, Steve, and Moe, Jonathan

Translators: Ginmaule, Malinda and Fakdawer, Jerry

Issue Date: 2024-07-24

Source/Archival Link: https://www.sil.org/resources/archives/100200

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Original Description Snippet: The Quickstart Wordlist of Melanesia is designed for linguists doing preliminary fieldwork on languages in Melanesia... An innovation in this wordlist is the use of open-ended prompts that ask speakers to name as many items as they can in a particular category.

Attribution

This document was created in collaboration with Gemini, a large language model from Google, to clearly define the data structure and licensing requirements for this repository.

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File Contents

• QWOM2025-08.xml: The Quickstart Worldlist of Melanesia data converted to the Dekereke XML format. This file is an adaptation of the original data and is covered by the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. This repository contains the data structure only and does not contain the proprietary Dekereke application or any of its source code.

• LICENSE.md: The full text of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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