digital collaboration with machine-readable sign language text in the signwriting script
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Digital collaboration with machine-readable sign language text in the SignWriting Script.TRANSCRIPT
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Digital collaboration with machine-readable sign language text
in the SignWriting script
in association with the Center for Sutton Movement Writing
presented by Stephen E Slevinski Jr
SignWriting Symposium 2014 Day 4, time marker 25:55 http://www.signwriting.org/symposium/presentation0031.html
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SignWriting open data around the world.
The diversity of SignPuddle Online
1 million signs
65 sign languages
2 years of stability
http://signbank.org/signpuddle3.0/en/world/
Digital Collaboration in the SignWriting Script
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Imagine a world in which every single human being
can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
Wikimania London 2014
August 8th-10th
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1. Wikimedia
2. Sign Language Reality
3. Standards Process
4. Collaboration
5. State of the Art
Presentation Outline
Digital Collaboration in the SignWriting Script
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Wikimedia
Wikimedia is a global movement whose mission is to bring free educational
content to the world.
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WikimediaWikimedia Labs
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Signwriting
http://swis.wmflabs.org/
http://ase.wikipedia.wmflabs.org/
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WikimediaWikimedia Incubator
https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Slevinski/SignWriting/Tech
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/ase
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Coexists with spoken language throughout time
Egypt and Ancient Greece
Martha’s Vineyard
Sign language is superior in many situations
Deaf communication
Infant communication
Spatial description
Places where sound is not reliable
The sign language reality
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Grammatically correct
Digital collaboration
International community
Handwriting styles
Completeness of SignWritingThe standards process
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Sharing experience and perspectives
Building on the works of others
Documenting the results
Working togetherThe standards process
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A long digression into how standards are made…
The standards process
http://diveintohtml5.info/past.htmlDive into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim
Specification
ImplementationsReal world usage
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Implementations and specifications have to do a delicate dance together. You don’t want implementations to happen before the specification is finished, because people start depending on the details of implementations and that constrains the specification. However, you also don’t want the specification to be finished before there are implementations and author experience with those implementations, because you need the feedback. There is unavoidable tension here, but we just have to muddle on through.
The standards process
Mozilla Developerhttp://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jan/0107.html
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40 years of history
30 years of computer encoding
7 years of iterative development
Heuristic model that is compact and tractable
2 years of stability
SignWriting’s StandingsThe standards process
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Text, not video
Individual signs
Content
Tools
Collaboration
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ASCII encoding - Formal SignWriting
SVG fonts
CSS integration
Regular expression searching
Available on Wikimedia Incubator
SignWriting TodayThe state of the art
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Editors for desktop and mobile
TrueType Font
Standards Integration
Written sign language: universally available
SignWriting TomorrowThe state of the art
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Imagine a world in which every sign language user
can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
SignWriting Symposium 2014
July 21st - 24th
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40 Presentations from 12 Countrieshttp://www.signwriting.org/symposium/2014