The e-linguistics toolkit

In order to achieve the objectives of the e-Humanities framework, it is necessary for individual humanities fields to take charge and to create their own specific techniques that apply to their own unique varieties of data. The e-Linguistics Toolkit is presented to aid the move of linguis-tics into this new digital era. We show that achieving this requires data interoperability in terms of encoding, format, and content. Once data are made interoperable, data ma-nipulation in the form of validation and merging is neces-sary. As one way to ensure immediate usefulness to the ordi-nary working linguist, the toolkit offers data transformation services among various working formats and lays the foun-dations for intelligent search. 1