[sw-l] WoordenBoek and Sign Puddle coordination...a question...

[Stephen Slevinski]

Hi Val,

If the Flemish dictionary can dump image files, we could have a Sign Puddle
dictionary right now.

Otherwise, we are using different symbol sets (sss-1999 vs 222-2004) and
conversion is a problem.

-Stephen
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  Subject: [sw-l] WoordenBoek and Sign Puddle coordination...a question...


  SignWriting List
  October 13, 2004

  Kathleen Heylen wrote:

    thank you very much! I will show it to my pupils :o)
    I'm not planning on filling this dictionary because there is a Flemish
Sign Language dictionary availible on the internet: http://ugent.gebaren.be
    But i doubt if it is in English too. But i will try to motivate my
students to participate in this dictionary building ;o) Greetz Kathleen



  Hello Everyone, Kathleen and Stephen!
  Thank you, for the idea of a new Sign Puddle for Flemish Sign
Language...That would give the Deaf students some new features, like adding
their own signs to the web dictionary, and sending email written in Flemish
Sign Language....

  The Flemish Sign Language students are doubly lucky, because they also
have their own WoordenBoek program on the web, developed by Flemish
programmers Steven Aerts and Bart Braem...You can read about the Flemish
dictionary on these web pages..

  WoordenBoek
  http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/archive/softarc09.html

  WoordenBoek
  http://gebaren.ugent.be/

  WoordenBoek
  http://www.signwriting.org/forums/software/lisbon/lisbon07.html

  They have over 6000 Flemish signs on the web, and can automatically
convert SignWriter DOS dictionaries (.dic and .din files)...and there is a
second dictionary for ASL with 3000 signs on the web...plus they can search
by handshape and contact symbols...

  So here is my question to the programmers....since WoordenBoek and
SignPuddle both are using a form of SWML, and since Woordenboek can convert
SignWriter DOS dictionaries, could SignPuddle then read the WoordenBoek
sign-entries, bringing the signs into a SignPuddle dictionary, which
indirectly would be a way to convert SignWriter DOS dictionaries to
SignPuddle? smile....ha!

  Val ;-)

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