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Nice work Steve,<br>
I really like the Query the part about the query strings. I
think that can become handy for many programmers thank you for
sharing!!<br>
Nice to see everything coming together.<br>
<br>
Jonathan<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/27/2013 6:45 PM, Stephen E
Slevinski Jr wrote:<br>
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Hi List,<br>
<br>
I continue to work on SignPuddle development. Building up the
pieces one at a time and connecting them together, layer upon
layer. I've had some tremendous success with the database and
with API access. I'd like to share my latest achievements. I
apologize that the details are technical. Eventually, these
details will be covered up by easy to use graphical interfaces.<br>
<br>
Today, I release a new version of the SignWriting Icon Server. It
includes a shiny new API: application programming interface. An
API allows others to access our data with modern web
technologies. I currently only have the English/ASL dictionary
loaded from SignPuddle. I am still working on the database and I
will load additional puddles in the near future.<br>
<br>
So what can the API do? A user requests data and the API returns
the results.<br>
<br>
If you visit <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://SignPuddle.com">http://SignPuddle.com</a>
you can try it yourself. The top of the page has a rudimentary
front end that allows you to access the API.<br>
<br>
<img src="cid:part2.05020200.00080409@yahoo.ca" alt=""><br>
<br>
The first input box allows you to search by spoken language. If
we search for "hello", we will see the following results.<br>
<br>
<img src="cid:part3.00060401.09070004@yahoo.ca" alt=""><br>
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The second input box allows you to search by sign language using
Formal SignWriting or a query string. If you have a sign encoded
with FSW that you found online, you can process that sign with the
API. Let's consider the following FSW string:
AS18701S1870aS2e734S20500M518x533S1870a489x515S18701482x490S20500508x496S2e734500x468<br>
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Visualize will show the sign image.<br>
<img src="cid:part4.03010003.09040608@yahoo.ca" alt=""><br>
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Query will search the database for similar signs.<br>
<img src="cid:part5.08060303.06060201@yahoo.ca" alt=""><br>
<br>
Reverse will search for spoken language equivalents for similar
signs.<br>
<br>
<img src="cid:part6.05030703.09080601@yahoo.ca" alt=""><br>
<br>
The query strings are very powerful, but esoteric. A graphical
interface will help, but for now, here is a quick example. Using
the ISWA HTML Reference ( <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://signbank.org/iswa">http://signbank.org/iswa</a>
), we determine that we are interested in signs with a particular
hand shape (S115) and the single contact (S205). These keys need
a specific fill and rotation, such as S115 with fill 0 and
rotation 0 for key S11500 or we can leave the fill and rotation
unspecified such as S115uu.<br>
<img src="cid:part8.07080305.05080008@yahoo.ca" alt=""><br>
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The first query string we'll use is QS11500S20500<br>
<br>
<img src="cid:part9.00070304.07000103@yahoo.ca" alt=""><br>
The second query string will leave the fill and rotation
unspecified for the hand shape with query string QS115uuS20500<br>
<br>
<br>
<img src="cid:part10.07000603.06030504@yahoo.ca" alt=""><br>
<br>
So just a quick taste of things to come. Thanks for hanging in
there with the technical details. Query strings are detailed in
Modern SignWriting, section 9:
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://signpuddle.net/wiki/index.php/MSW:Regular_Storage_Form#9.B._Query_String">http://signpuddle.net/wiki/index.php/MSW:Regular_Storage_Form#9.B._Query_String</a><br>
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Questions or comments are welcome.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
∼Steve </blockquote>
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