CZECH New Sign Dictionary Project on CD

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
February 6, 2006

Honza from the Czech Republic wrote:
> At one university here, we are making new sign-dictionary on CD  
> with I'll call it SignWriting support.
> So now we are making new CD dictionary (mostly with IT, maths,  
> typography etc. terms) and we'll need some software for searching  
> signs like on the signbank.org is available.

Hello Honza and Everyone!
Thank you for this message...The reason I am not getting to SignText  
instruction, is that researchers have contacted me privately about  
using SignBank combined with SignPuddle and SignText, and there have  
been many emails answering their technical questions...The linguistic  
research community is just starting to realize the enormous tools  
available to them!

There are several ways for your project to move forward, with or  
without funding...

1. Free
Use your current Czech SignPuddle, or SignText, to create your signs.  
Then place those signs into whatever software you are using to create  
your CDs.

If you are going to print your dictionaries in a book, then I would  
strongly suggest using SignBank. SignBank is a sophisticated database  
program. Once your signs are in SignBank, you can print your  
dictionaries, because it is set up with some really beautiful print  
layouts that make it possible to print multi-lingual dictionaries,  
with illustrations, pictures...so many beautiful print formats! If  
you build a Czech SignBank, it could be shared by all your  
schools...It is a great way to print vocabulary lists...

We do not have a Czech version of SignBank at this time, so I would  
suggest downloading any country SignBank on the web, and just use  
it...We can change it to around 10 spoken languages, but  
unfortunately Czech is not one of them...But SignBank works  
beautifully for ANY Sign Language...it is only the spoken languages I  
am talking about...smile...so if people understand English at your  
university, then download the US version setup for English...smile...

Download SignBank
http://www.SignBank.org/downloads


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2. With Funding, For A Group Project
I would suggest getting a Private SignPuddle for your group, that  
will give you new features, including the possibility of video-upload  
and other linguistic search features...To read about Private  
SignPuddles, go to:

SignPuddle Web Services
http://signbank.org/signpuddle/services.html

Your project would be private and you will be able to add signs  
without the concern of others coming in and using the same SignPuddle...

Once your signs are entered into SignPuddle, you can place them in a  
variety of programs, to create your CDs...


Val ;-)


Valerie Sutton
Sutton at SignWriting.org

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1. SignWriting
http://www.SignWriting.org
Read & Write Sign Languages

2. SignBank
http://www.SignBank.org
Sign Language Databases

3. SignPuddle
http://www.SignBank.org/signpuddle
Create & Share Signs Online & Offline

4. MovementWriting
http://www.MovementWriting.org
Read & Write All Body Movement

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