| 1968 | card box for bibliographical references and keyword categorization of linguistic literature | 
| 1985 | conversion into computerized database | 
| 1994 | conversion of database to MS Office Access; to this day, the database is kept and expanded in Access 2000  | 
| 2002 | online version on web started | 
| 2017 | software transferred to Regensburg University server; no updates of online version since then.  |