| 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. |