SIL FieldWorks BTE 6.0.3

Language projects begin with careful study of the language and culture of a community by:

1. entering cultural and linguistic observations
2. analyzing and capturing linguistic and cultural rules and precepts
3. writing papers, including dictionaries and writeups of linguistic and cultural phenomena

FieldWorks is a set of software tools that help manage cultural and linguistic data from initial collection through submission for publication. A sampling of what FieldWorks supports:

* the Dictionary Development Process which defines an approach for building and refining a dictionary
* categorizing cultural observations using the Outline of Cultural Materials
* complex non-Roman scripts using Unicode and SIL-developed Graphite
* most writing systems (except vertical script at this time)
* limited multi-user capacity which opens the door to cluster project work over the Internet or a LAN

FieldWorks stores data in a common set of databases which allows for:

* integrated data
* integrated task work
* normalization of data