The Intercontinental Dictionary Series (commonly abbreviated as IDS) is a large database of topical vocabulary lists in various world languages.
The general editor of the database is Bernard Comrie of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.
Mary Ritchie Key of the University of California, Irvine is the founding editor.
The Intercontinental Dictionary Series' advanced browsing function allows users to make custom tables which compare languages in side-by-side columns.
It is part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.