Paper, even though it smells nice, feels good and looks impressive, cannot begin to do what I want my next grammar to do. The first demand my new grammar will have to satisfy is that it offers all available data. The enormous amount of storage available on a cd-rom makes that possible. I don't want to be fobbed off with a few hundred words in a list at the back of a book, when the author has thousands more in his personal database - to withhold a fact is to publish a falsehood. Presenting all the data will make all statements verifiable.
Data exist in several forms.
Most fieldworkers carry tape recorders and have a large store of tapes of conversation in their drawers - and those tapes are allowed to slowly degrade into mere rusty dust clinging to flimsy plastic and nobody but the original fieldworker ever has access to them. But with the advent of good quality audio compression formats it should be possible to compress that amount of data and present it along with the analysis. If you click on a convenient icon at the start of the example, I want you to hear the whole example. If you click on the space before the word, I want you to hear the word. If you click on the morpheme, I want you to hear what I thought was the discrete sound associated by that bit of meaning.