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

[Valerie Sutton]

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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