[Sw-l] Announcing the Sutton SignWriting Platform: Complete Eight-Series Release

[Josenilson da Silva Mendes]

Olá, pessoal!

Estou eufórico com o manifesto, Steve, e orgulhoso por representar o Brasil
na SignWriting List. Espero poder contribuir ainda mais com minha
futura tese de doutorado sobre o sistema Sutton.


Josenilson Mendes


Em dom., 24 de mai. de 2026 às 18:55, Kimberley Shaw <skifoot at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Awesomely well-written manifesto, Steve.
> Bravo! This is the kind of explanation the world needs. Thank you!
> Ki. From Boston
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2026, 12:56 PM Steve Slevinski <slevin at signpuddle.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi SignWriting List,
>>
>> I've noticed that Sutton SignWriting is not always described accurately
>> in scholarly literature, standards discussions, and related technical work.
>> To help address this, I have released the Sutton SignWriting Platform:
>> Complete Eight-Series Release on Zenodo, GitHub, and my personal website.
>>
>> This is a comprehensive reference record written from my perspective as
>> the technical author and long-term steward of the Formal SignWriting
>> encoding and software infrastructure. It builds on Valerie Sutton's
>> invention of SignWriting, decades of SignWriting practice, and the work of
>> many writers, teachers, researchers, and communities.
>>
>> Platform release:
>> https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20041043
>> https://github.com/sutton-signwriting/platform-record
>> https://steveslevinski.me/#section/publications
>>
>> The release includes eight connected series:
>>
>> Sutton SignWriting Foundations - Public entry point and conceptual
>> foundation.
>> Sutton SignWriting Evidence and Adoption - Evidence base, adoption
>> boundaries, and country anchors.
>> Signed Language Writing Critical Review Series - Literature and standards
>> review through the layer-based framework.
>> Writing and Representation in Sutton SignWriting - Writing-systems
>> theory, authored space, and typological framing.
>> Formal SignWriting - Technical text model, encoding, search, rendering,
>> styling, and practice.
>> Sutton SignWriting Language and Literacy Research - Research agenda for
>> signed-language literacy, reading, and pathway questions.
>> Sutton SignWriting Infrastructure and Program - Stewardship, host
>> structure, shared infrastructure, and program design.
>> Unicode and SignWriting - Unicode-facing technical notes, compatibility
>> issues, and standards record.
>>
>> I have tried to be careful, fair, and precise throughout these materials.
>> This is not a claim that every sentence is perfect or that these documents
>> are the last word on SignWriting. They are meant to be read, cited,
>> questioned, corrected where needed, and built from.
>>
>> At the same time, the release plants a clear flag: Sutton SignWriting
>> should be engaged as it actually exists, with its history, practice,
>> dictionaries, software, users, writing-system structure, and technical
>> infrastructure taken seriously. I hope this platform makes it harder for
>> future work to mischaracterize SignWriting or treat it as less developed
>> than it is.
>>
>> I have also included a short human-facing companion text that says the
>> heart of the project more directly:
>>
>> The Inevitable Text
>> https://steveslevinski.me/#page/the-inevitable-text
>>
>> I hope these materials are helpful and useful.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Steve
>>
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