SSWL/Terraling (S/T) Value Prop

Current state of affairs

1. The de facto online language repository is WALS http://wals.info/
2. It has limitations

The value that S/T can provide

1. It can provide more detailed characterizations of languages based on finer grained properties than WALS
2. It can provide data on more properties
3. It can provide higher quality data than WALS
4. It can support scientific purposes in the formal generative tradition
5. It can provide the detailed observations from which new theories can be built
6. It can teach students how to do field work
7. It can help people in the 3W participate in linguistic science