Kura

Kura is a software application designed for linguists who work with fieldwork or manuscript data. This powerful tool supports the entry, analysis, and presentation of linguistic data, whether in the form of recordings or manuscripts. With Kura, you can easily manage and work on multi-user, multi-language, and multi-project data. This means that multiple linguists can collaborate simultaneously on data without any language restrictions, and all data can be handled within any project.

One of the most significant advantages of Kura is its extensibility and easy adaptation to users' specific needs. The software is written in Python, the programming language preferred by subject experts, making it flexible and easy to develop and use other modules such as parsers. As open-source software, any component of Kura can be adapted to meet the user's unique requirements.

Kura offers many features, including a dynamic data model, standard tagset support, the ability to generate documents in docbook, and integration of manuscripts and recordings. Furthermore, it is 100% Unicode compliant and network-transparent, ensuring seamless collaboration across devices.

To use Kura, you need Python 2.1 or later and PyQt 3.4.2 or later (sip 3.4.1 or later is required). Kura is released under the Python License (CNRI Python License). If you're using a Mac, you can create a .app file with py2app from sources using this command: python setup-mac.py py2app --include sip. Overall, Kura is an efficient and easy-to-use tool for linguists seeking to manage, analyze, and present fieldwork or manuscript data.