Elements can be defined recursively, if necessary to the phonetic level. Lexical items can be practically everything, from proper names to words, morphemes and even sounds. The exact type of lexical item depends upon the tag used. A thesaurus database could be used to dynamically link semantically related items within the lexicon, for a single language, or a range of languages. Tags offer structural information on streams and elements.
Tags are unique in value.
The purpose of this chapter is to take a small text and see if it fits into the datamodel shown above. The jackal built a swing. The main Kura window uses the explorer interface which is familiar to most users. The user can drill down to the data he or she wishes to view or edit, starting from data, languages, language or users. For instance, when working with the Yamphu Grammar project, the right hand pane will show the users working on that project, the texts, recordings and scans that belong to that project, and so on.