<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hoping I can do something with Howard university this year </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jan 17, 2016, at 10:26 AM, Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:signwriting@mac.com">signwriting@MAC.COM</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii">SignWriting List<div class="">January 17, 2016</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello SignWriting List members!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you Rachel, for posting this announcement about the new SignTyp Database at the University of Connecticut (UCONN). The SignTyp project is funded by a grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), through the Linguistic Department at UCONN, directed by Dr. Harry van der Hulst.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dr. Rachel Channon is the director and visionary behind the SignTyp project. Thank you, Rachel, for this amazing project!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The SignTyp database uses a specially-designed SignPuddle server, that is located on the UCONN server, programmed by Steve Slevinski.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The SignTyp database will include 1000 videos from 15 different sign languages. That will be 15,000 videos and entries in SignTyp, when the project is finished. This is a great gift to the world, for signers, students, schools and linguists.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Each entry includes the written SignWriting next to the video. Adam Frost and I are two of the SignWriting transcriptionists writing the videos in SignWriting. It is an amazing project!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The announcement below is asking for YOUR assistance to work with the SignTyp team...We need your help...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you would like to create videos from your sign language to be used in SignTyp, please contact Rachel:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dr. Rachel Channon</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:rchannon1@verizon.net" class="">rchannon1@VERIZON.NET</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We look forward to hearing from you!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Val ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">------------------------------------------------------</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 16, 2016, at 10:11 PM, Rachel Channon <<a href="mailto:rchannon1@verizon.net" class="">rchannon1@VERIZON.NET</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">We are looking for adults who have used a sign language from an early age to record their language for inclusion in SignTyp, an on-line cross-linguistic dictionary/database project at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.signtyp.uconn.edu/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">www.signtyp.uconn.edu</a>. Payment details below.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Signers use the prompt images at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.signtyp.uconn.edu/prompt/promptindex.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">www.signtyp.uconn.edu/prompt/promptindex.html</a>, which include common concepts of numbers, animals, body parts, nature, food, clothing, tools, games, careers, relationships, space and time. Estimated total time involved is about 4 hours. Recordings may be made as time permits, and can use any device with acceptable quality (camera, smartphone, tablet, webcam etc.). They can be made as selfies or with a recorder assisting.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Alternatively, we may pay for videos which have already been collected, if they can be matched to our prompts. A mix of already created videos and new videos is also possible.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class="">Payments/Incentives:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class="">Payment</b>: Signers are paid $0.50 USD per sign. A signer who completes the entire set is paid $500 or equivalent in other currencies. Payments may be split as desired among signer and any others involved in the work. There may be additional work, if interested.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Payments for already created videos to be negotiated.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class="">Financial assistance for recording costs</b>. Assistance can be given for the cost of cameras, flash cards, internet charges, selfie sticks or other special costs. Signers with limited or no internet access can be provided prompts by other methods.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class="">Free online expandable dictionary of your sign language:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is a wonderful opportunity to obtain a free online (and printable) dictionary of your language -- and be paid to help create it. Your dictionary will have more than 1000 signs, with videos of each sign, pictures of the concept, spoken language glosses, and a transcription into SignWriting. You can add additional material beyond the scope of our project.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class="">Free SignWriting:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>All<b class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>signs are transcribed into SignWriting with additional sequencing information added. Data on handshape, orientation, action, location, hand relationships, and sequence are included. All data can be exported for your use in other programs.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Transcription is normally done on a first-come, first-served basis, so a quick response puts you ahead in the queue! And, if you are interested, and are familiar with SignWriting, we can even pay you to provide transcriptions.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Work-in-progress examples of SignWriting for ASL, Nicaraguan, Honduran, Turkish and other sign languages can be seen at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://signtyp.uconn.edu/signpuddle/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">www.signtyp.uconn.edu/signpuddle</a>. We expect to be adding Russian, Tunisian and Haitian signs shortly.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class="">Free phonological/phonetic research database:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Each language is added to a downloadable research database, similar to the original SignTyp1 database at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://signtype.uconn.edu/signtyp1/signtyp1index.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">www.signtyp.uconn.edu/signtyp1/signtyp1index.html</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class="">Contact</b>: Rachel Channon -- rchannon1 @<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://verizon.net/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">verizon.net</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">SignTyp is made possible by National Science Foundation grant BCS-1049510 to Harry van der Hulst at the University of Connecticut.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">________________________________________________</span><div style="margin-right: 0in; 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text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">sutton@signwriting.org</a></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Post Messages to the SignWriting List:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:sw-l@listserv.valenciacollege.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">sw-l@listserv.valenciacollege.edu</a></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; 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