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<div dir="ltr">Hi SignWriting List,<br>
<br>
I've noticed that Sutton SignWriting is not always described
accurately in scholarly literature, standards discussions, and
related technical work. To help address this, I have released
the Sutton SignWriting Platform: Complete Eight-Series Release
on Zenodo, GitHub, and my personal website.<br>
<br>
This is a comprehensive reference record written from my
perspective as the technical author and long-term steward of
the Formal SignWriting encoding and software infrastructure.
It builds on Valerie Sutton's invention of SignWriting,
decades of SignWriting practice, and the work of many writers,
teachers, researchers, and communities.<br>
<br>
Platform release:<br>
<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20041043"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20041043</a><br>
<a
href="https://github.com/sutton-signwriting/platform-record"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/sutton-signwriting/platform-record</a><br>
<a href="https://steveslevinski.me/#section/publications"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://steveslevinski.me/#section/publications</a><br>
<br>
The release includes eight connected series:<br>
<br>
Sutton SignWriting Foundations - Public entry point and
conceptual foundation.<br>
Sutton SignWriting Evidence and Adoption - Evidence base,
adoption boundaries, and country anchors.<br>
Signed Language Writing Critical Review Series - Literature
and standards review through the layer-based framework.<br>
Writing and Representation in Sutton SignWriting -
Writing-systems theory, authored space, and typological
framing.<br>
Formal SignWriting - Technical text model, encoding, search,
rendering, styling, and practice.<br>
Sutton SignWriting Language and Literacy Research - Research
agenda for signed-language literacy, reading, and pathway
questions.<br>
Sutton SignWriting Infrastructure and Program - Stewardship,
host structure, shared infrastructure, and program design.<br>
Unicode and SignWriting - Unicode-facing technical notes,
compatibility issues, and standards record.<br>
<br>
I have tried to be careful, fair, and precise throughout these
materials. This is not a claim that every sentence is perfect
or that these documents are the last word on SignWriting. They
are meant to be read, cited, questioned, corrected where
needed, and built from.<br>
<br>
At the same time, the release plants a clear flag: Sutton
SignWriting should be engaged as it actually exists, with its
history, practice, dictionaries, software, users,
writing-system structure, and technical infrastructure taken
seriously. I hope this platform makes it harder for future
work to mischaracterize SignWriting or treat it as less
developed than it is.<br>
<br>
I have also included a short human-facing companion text that
says the heart of the project more directly:<br>
<br>
The Inevitable Text<br>
<a href="https://steveslevinski.me/#page/the-inevitable-text"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://steveslevinski.me/#page/the-inevitable-text</a><br>
<br>
I hope these materials are helpful and useful.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
-Steve</div>
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