News
2006-04-07
A new bugfix release 2.2b is out. Problems with wrong QSizePolicy-calls with recent Qt3 releases should now be fixed. Mac and Windows releases stay as they are, because a working Qt3 release is bundled with them. Linux users should update. Download here.
2005-04-06
Kura 2.2 is out! There are now native packages for Windows and Mac OS X, so there is no
need to install Qt and PyQt on these operating systems. Please also note the new XML import and export
facilities. Have a look at the manual.
2005-01-01
Happy new year to all Kura users! We began to use a new documentation system based on ErfurtWiki. Everyone is invited to participate in writing pages and pages of documentation now...
And, last but not least, there is a pre-release package of Kura 2.2 available at the download section. Some minor bugs were fixed and it is now possible to import XML in Kura. There will be a small database of interlinear texts on the website of our institute soon, some XML files to be directly imported and used with Kura. Stay tuned.
And, last but not least, there is a pre-release package of Kura 2.2 available at the download section. Some minor bugs were fixed and it is now possible to import XML in Kura. There will be a small database of interlinear texts on the website of our institute soon, some XML files to be directly imported and used with Kura. Stay tuned.
2004-06-17
Just added a few example of language data in the new Data Samples section.
2004-05-27
A pre-release package for version 2.1 is now available in the download
area. Any comments are welcome, I'm just getting into the code and may have not even found all
the features that were useable (but may not be anymore). Look in the CHANGELOG for new stuff.
Documentation will be updated soon.
2004-05-11
The development pages with the Kura CVS archive have been inaugurated at sf.net.
Join the kura-users mailing list to stay up-to-date.
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2004-04-28
Kura maintainership has been moved to the Universitiy of Munich. The new maintainer, that's
me, Peter Bouda (email: peter.bouda AT gmx.de). This page is currently under heavy construction,
but the latest version of Kura and the
manual are available. CVS will open up soon and meanwhile you may look
forward to a new release of Kura, with support for the
Leipzig Glossing Rules, tabbed
working, etc.
Oh, and last but not least, thanks very much to Mr. Boudewijn Rempt, for the excellent work he did with Kura. So far, all credits go to him. I'll do my best to appropiately continue developing a good piece of software...
Oh, and last but not least, thanks very much to Mr. Boudewijn Rempt, for the excellent work he did with Kura. So far, all credits go to him. I'll do my best to appropiately continue developing a good piece of software...
Kura
Kura is a multi-user open-source linguistic database especially geared towards language description. Read the proposal for a description of the intended functionality and the preliminary design.
The application consists of four independent parts: an application framework that works with the data from the database, and a gui-framework that the user to work with the data, a server that can present the data in html form over the Internet, and finally a project that is used to generate a pdf version or an html version of a linguistics text that uses the information from the database.
Requirements
Kura is developed in Python, with some third party extension modules for the GUI and the database connectivity. Kura can use either MySQL or files (Python cpickle format) to store the data.
License
Kura is released under the very liberal Python license.
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