Database of Places, Language, Culture, and Environment
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The Database of Places, Language, Culture, and Environment (D-PLACE) is an expandable, open-access databases that aims to describe the dispersed corpus of information describing human cultural diversity. Its goal is to make it easy for individuals to contrast their own cultural practices with those of other societies, and to consider the factors that may underlie cultural similarities and differences. D-PLACE contains cultural, linguistic, environmental and geographic information 'societies', which are groups of people in a particular locality who often share a language and cultural identity. All cultural descriptions are tagged with the date to which they refer and with the ethnographic sources that provided the descriptions. The majority of the cultural descriptions in D-PLACE are based on ethnographic work carried out in the 19th and early-20th centuries (pre-1950). D-PLACE lets you visualize cross-cultural data in three ways: as a list in a table, on a global map, or on a linguistic tree (i.e., phylogeny or classification). Data points (i.e., rows in the table, points on the map, points on the tree) represent the expression of a particular cultural feature by a particular society at a given time and place, as recorded by the Source. Data points are colour-coded to allow you to quickly assess the diversity of a cultural feature across societies in the table, map, or linguistic tree.
地点、语言、文化与环境数据库（Database of Places, Language, Culture, and Environment，简称D-PLACE）是一个可扩展的开放获取数据库，旨在系统呈现描述人类文化多样性的各类分散信息。其核心目标是帮助使用者便捷对比自身文化实践与其他社会的文化实践，并探究塑造文化异同的潜在影响因素。 D-PLACE收录了围绕‘社会’单元的文化、语言、环境与地理信息，此处的‘社会’指特定地域内共享语言与文化认同的人群群体。所有文化描述均标注了其所对应的时间节点，以及提供该描述的民族志资料来源。D-PLACE中的绝大多数文化描述均基于19世纪至20世纪初（1950年之前）开展的民族志研究工作。 D-PLACE支持三种跨文化数据可视化呈现方式：以表格列表形式、全球地图形式，以及语言演化树（linguistic tree，即系统发育树（phylogeny）或分类体系）形式。数据点（即表格中的行、地图上的点位以及演化树上的节点）代表由来源记录的、特定社会在特定时空下所呈现的某一文化特征。所有数据点均采用颜色编码，以便使用者快速评估表格、地图或语言演化树上各社会间的文化特征多样性。
