Similar software

Existing Web-based software that field linguists made/use:

http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~karuk/index.php ** Benefits: we should contact its users to find out more what they love and dont love... see if there are any lessons to be learned here. ** Pitfalls: Made in php, doesn't run offline
http://washo.uchicago.edu/dictionary/dictionary.php ** Benefits: we should contact its users to find out more what they love and dont love... see if there are any lessons to be learned here. Seems to strike a good balance between constraining the data entries, generating a dictionary for heritage speakers and endangered languages. Definitely some good stuff here. **Pitfalls: Made in php, doesn't run offline. Could use some AJAX love (ie, mouse over, hover and other actions to make morphological glosses more friendly to the eyes..)
https://web.chass.utoronto.ca/inuitweb/stories/sentences/index/3 ** Benefits: written in Ruby on Rails! Good framework choice ** Pitfalls: it doesn't run offline. we need to ask its users what other lessons we can learn...

Toolbox http://www.sil.org/computing/toolbox/ ** Benefits: Pretty easy to start using, has smart morphological glossing, can build towards a corpus, a grammar or a lexicon. All around, an excellent tool. ** Pitfalls: Runs only on Windows computers so cannot be shared on team with Mac users.
FileMaker Pro http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~jcgood/bifocal/FileMakerRev.html ** Benefits: customizable and programmable. Many departments/teams hired a programer to make it into a proper grammar building tool. Made by a company so its supported and maintained, and likely to continue to be supported and maintained. Seems to have a web publishing feature ** Pitfalls: long standing history, unicode is a new addition, proprietary format (although it seems to be exportable in .csv)

Field database (made in cold fusion) http://emeld.org/school/workroom/lexicon/index.html ** Benefits: constrains user input, choose language from the ethnologue, choose categories from a list of predefined categories (why dont they have a distinction between light verb and verb?) ** Pitfalls: made in cold fusion, was built in the era of Internet Explorer 6. It took me 10 minutes to add the word for "donkey" to my lexicon...when i wanted to add an inflected form it took literally 5 minutes(!) to get to the next page. Obviously there is a big crunching system behind it. We don't want to make this mistake.