"How to Cite" button and reference system needed

[PaulHeggarty]

We need to offer users a way of citing the website and data. There needs to be some way of fairly deciding who is to be named as a contributor to each study on the site. I will propose something here soon.

[LinguList]

The most logical way to do this is to work with "editorial roles", as they do in the biblatex specification which is incredibly useful for the complex things we are dealing with when creating linguistic data in collaborative projects. They make a distinctoin between different roles (founder, translator, compiler, etc.), and also allow for customization. I think you should define the different degree of who performed in which role, and put their names on accordingly. See http://ctan.sharelatex.com/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/biblatex/doc/biblatex.pdf for details, page 34ff We do this also in LingPy now, where all former contributors who did not work for the next release are given the role of "contributor": http://lingpy.org

[PaulHeggarty]

Within Sound Comparison there is a lot of complexity, but I have a system worked out and agreed with other major contributors, and it can now be implemented on the site.