The data is uploaded in Gabmap as a plain text file with a single tab-separated table. You can create this file, for example, by using MS Excel, see example here.
Each line in the file is a row in the table. Table cells are separated by a tab character. There are no quotes around the contents of a cell, and the contents does not contain escape characters. That is, the content of each cell is used as it is. Lines starting with a hash (#) are considered comments, and ignored.
The first row in the table contains the labels for the the linguistic variables (except if the data is difference data). The first column in the table contains the names of the locations. Each column (except column one) has all the variants of a single linguistic variable for all locations. Each row (except row one) has the variants of all items for a single location.
| # this is a comment: ignored | |||
| item 1 | item 2 | item 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| place A | variant A1 | variant A2 | variant A3 |
| place B | variant B1 | variant B2 | variant B3 |
| place C | variant C1 | variant C2 | variant C3 |
| place D | variant D1 | variant D2 | variant D3 |
The first cell in the first row can be empty or missing. When missing, the first line has one cell less than all the other rows.
Examples and specifications for different data types:
The following file encodings are recognized:
All other encodings are assumed to be ISO-8859-1.