SIGNBANK: Use SignPuddle to Create A SignBank For Your Country

[Ingvild Roald]

Thank you, Val,

I'm looking froward to be able to utilize all the great possibilities that I 
know are just around the corner ...

Ingvild





>From: "Valerie Sutton" <sutton at signwriting.org>
>Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>Subject: [sw-l] SIGNBANK: Use SignPuddle to Create A SignBank For Your 
>Country
>Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 07:40:17 -0800
>
>SignWriting List
>November 18, 2005
>
>>Ingvild Roald wrote:
>>Just now I am writing signs into the SignPudle for my presentation  to all 
>>the Sign Language researchers in Norway on Saturday next. So  my next 
>>question is: How can I get the signs from SignPuddle into  SignBank??? 
>>Ingvild
>
>
>
>Hello Ingvild and Everyone!
>Thank you for this question. I will be happy to teach you how to use  
>SignPuddle to create your own Norwegian SignBank.
>
>I will start a series of Lessons teaching how to create your own  SignBank 
>from SignPuddle this weekend...or at the latest, the lessons  will start 
>this coming Monday. And the lessons will be  ongoing...because SignBank is 
>a very rich program with many features  to learn!
>
>This will help several other projects too. I believe there are  others, in 
>French-Belgium perhaps? and perhaps Brazil? who have  expressed interest in 
>publishing vocabulary lists and printed  dictionaries sorted by 
>Sign-Symbol-Sequence. SignBank also makes it  possible to create 
>multiple-language dictionaries, between several  spoken and signed 
>languages within one document. Plus you can search  by sophisticated 
>linguistic searches, and work on SignSpelling  issues, create 
>picture-dictionaries for children, and there is a  place to add video clips 
>and animation for each sign...SignBank also  provides the complete 
>SymbolBank, so you can search for individual  symbols to study them.
>
>SignPuddle is the way we prepare the signs, that are then placed in  
>SignBank.
>
>Since SignBank is a desktop program, and since it does not require  
>FileMaker or any other software, and since it can be used in both  
>Macintosh and Windows computers, it is a great partner with  SignPuddle, 
>which provides the way to write the signs themselves.
>
>The two programs, SignBank and SignPuddle, are the only programs we  know 
>of, that are using the IMWA...I test the IMWA in SignBank before  I place 
>the symbols in SignPuddle (with Steve's help of course!)...
>
>Sooo...I need to upload the latest version of SignBank onto the web,  so 
>you can download it, with the new 10 handshapes and so many other  changes 
>that we made to the IMWA recently... I need another day  before I will be 
>able to upload the new SignBank...
>
>Once the up-to-date SignBank is on the web for you to download, I  will 
>announce it, and then once you have downloaded it, we can begin  the 
>lessons...
>
>Thanks for asking!!
>
>And best of luck with all your great projects in Norway, Ingvild!
>
>Val ;-)
>
>
>Valerie Sutton
>Sutton at SignWriting.org
>
>1. SignWriting
>http://www.SignWriting.org
>Read & Write Sign Languages
>
>2. SignBank
>http://www.SignBank.org
>Sign Language Dictionaries
>
>
>