[sw-l] Sign Puddle: from a glossary to a dictionary

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
October 19, 2004

Stephen Slevinski wrote:
> Sign Puddle really is a glossary tool, rather than a dictionary.  We
> need to
> add information to the signs.  If we can come up with a formal
> definition of
> what this additional information should look like (a DTD for example),
> I
> will update the editors screen to allows them to maintain this
> information.
> This information will become part of the Sign Puddle extract.
>
> Here is an incomplete start:
> Source:
> Dialect:
> Parts of speech: verb, noun, ...
> Usage: text
>
> Anyone interested?
> -Stephen


Dear SW List members, and Stephen!
Yes, of course someday this kind of information will be great, but I
hope you will not make it too complicated...We are barely started on
any kind of dictionary, let alone a fancy one, so I hope our List
members will start adding signs to their dictionaries! A glossary will
always be needed...

If you do a definitions page, that is separate, so when people find the
sign they want, they get the definitions too, that is fine...Adam Frost
has been working on definitions written in SignWriting...ASL describing
ASL...and someday I suppose, it would be nice to have that too...I have
been reducing the signs in the ASL definitions inside Photoshop, to
make the written SignWriting definition seem smaller than the size of
the entry, and then pasting the entire ASL definition into SignBank as
a graphic...

Please see the attached picture of an entry in SignBank...the ASL
definition by Adam Frost is at the bottom of the diagram...Many thanks,
Adam, for your hard work! and you too Stephen...smile...

Val ;-)



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