iLanguage Lab is getting ready to launch FieldDB, a cloud based data entry app created for researchers at McGill, Concordia and University of California Santa Cruz. FieldDB is written in 100% Javascript and uses CouchDB, a NoSQL data store which scales to accomodate large amounts of unstructured data. CouchDB uses Map Reduce to efficiently search across data, a win-win for our clients. FieldDB uses fieldlinguistics and machine learning to automatically adapt to its user’s data. Most importantly, even though FieldDB is a WebApp that runs in your browser, FieldDB can run 100% offline. FieldDB will go into beta testing the first week of July. FieldDB will be officially launched in English and Spanish on August 1st 2012 in Patzun, Guatemala.

What is FieldDB?
FieldDB is a free, open source project developed collectively by field linguists and software developers to make a modular, user-friendly app which can be used to collect, search and share your data.
Who can I use FieldDB with?
- FieldDB is a Chrome app, which means it works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iPad, and also offline.
- Multiple collaborators can add to the same corpus, and you can encrypt any piece of data, keep it private within your corpus, or make it public to share with the community and other researchers.
How can FieldDB save me time?
FieldDB uses machine learning and computational linguistics to adapt to your existing organization of the data which you import and predict how to gloss it. FieldDB already supports import and export of many common formats, including ELAN, Praat, Toolbox, FLEx, Filemaker Pro, LaTeX, xml, csv and more, but if you have another format you’d like to import or export, Contact Us.
What are the principles behind FieldDB?
We designed FieldDB from the ground up to be user-friendly, but also to conform to EMELD and DataOne best practices on formatting, archiving, open access, and security. For more information, see Section 6 of our white paper. We vow never to use your private data, you can find out more in our privacy policy.
Curious how it works? FieldDB is OpenSourced on GitHub