Number of publications with SignWriting?

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
May 19, 2006

Have you seen the SignWriting Archives?

SignWriting Archives
http://www.SignWriting.org/archive

I am trying to collect all the literature in SignWriting, in PDF  
format, and place the PDF documents free-for-download in the  
SignWriting Archive.

It is a lot of work, because most of our documents in the past, have  
to be scanned in, and then create a PDF from that...but newer  
documents are there right now...take a look!

Val ;-)

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On May 19, 2006, at 8:24 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:

> SignWriting List
> May 19, 2006
>
> SW List Members -
> Deborah Anderson asked me to post this message to the SignWriting  
> List (see below). This question is in relation to placing  
> SignWriting in Unicode. Deborah is attending a meeting of the  
> Unicode Technical Committee all this week, and they need to know  
> how many publications, (or how many pages in documents), have been  
> written in SignWriting?...I told Deborah well over 1000 documents  
> at least, if not more, plus the number of pages will be in the  
> multiple thousands...
>
> For example, just the Parkhurst Mystery Novel alone, written in  
> Spanish Sign Language from Madrid, is 140 pages of pure  
> SignWriting...in a perfect bound book..that is only one of many...
>
> Deborah - You can read about that Novel written in SignWriting on  
> this web page:
>
> SignWriting in Spain
> http://www.SignWriting.org/spain
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
>
> On May 18, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Deborah Anderson wrote:
>
>> Dear Madam (or Sir),
>> I am working on a project and need to estimate the number of  
>> publications in the world today in SignWriting (books, magazines,  
>> articles), as well as those that contain SignWriting (i.e.,  
>> introductory books in English or German that teach SignWriting).  
>> In doing a search on "WorldCat" via the UC Berkeley library, I  
>> only come up with 25 books, which I am sure is probably too low. I  
>> see there are two serial publications, The Sign Writer (1989-) and  
>> Sign Writer updates (begun?), which ought also to be included in a  
>> count.  Do you think the number of books today (as produced in all  
>> countries) in SignWriting and with SignWriting might total 400 or  
>> so, with magazines perhaps 10?
>>
>> I've looked through your website and thought it best to write to  
>> you for any assistance you could provide. I'd be very grateful for  
>> any assistance you can provide.
>>
>> With many thanks,
>> Deborah Anderson
>>
>> Deborah Anderson
>> Researcher, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Berkeley
>> Proj. Leader, Script Encoding Initiative
>> http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei
>> NOTE NEW Email: dwanders at sonic.net
>> (or dwanders at berkeley.edu)
>