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Valerie Sutton Date: Wed Aug 22, 2001 5:18 pm Subject: Re: SW Touch Screen Keypad | |
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Tony McCloskey in Ireland wrote: >I was wondering about the SignBank does it come as a >book or as a software package and how many signs does it contain?? I need >to buy a copy could you tell me how much it is so I can get the college to >buy a copy and how I go about ordering it!! SignWriting List August 22, 2001 I am so glad to hear from you again, Tony. Did the advice and input from the SignWriting List members help? I hope so! We have a printed American Sign Language Dictionary with 3100 signs. It can be purchased in book form (a three-ringed notebook that is like a textbook): Sutton's American Sign Language Dictionary https://www.SignWriting.org/catalog/sw122.html And the same dictionary of 3100 signs is a part of the free SignWriter Shareware, US version. The dictionary is stored in the shareware, and can be accessed by opening the SignWriter program. It can be printed from the shareware too. Download Shareware https://www.SignWriting.org/forums/software/sw44/download And there are other wonderful dictionaries in SignWriting around the world, including the Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary, which is available for purchase from Brazil: Brazilian Sign Language Dictionary https://www.SignWriting.org/brazil/brazil.html In regards to your question about the SignBank Database....It is specially-designed database software in FileMaker 5.0. We are working with a FileMaker developer, to create database software that makes it possible to sort signs by Sign-Symbol-Sequence. So it is quite unique. FileMaker has never been used in this fashion before. The SignBankSite https://www.SignBank.org SignBank 1.0 was a Macintosh desk accessory for storing signs, which we developed in the mid 1980's. It is no longer available. SignBank 2.0 is a new version in FileMaker 5.0. It will work on Macintosh and Windows. SignBank 2.0 is not ready yet. I am hoping to ask a few beta testers to help me in September to test SignBank 2.0. But even with a successful testing period, that will not give us a database. It will give us software for creating new databases. But it may take us years to actually build large SignBanks. In time it will be sold. I do not know the price yet. Which Sign Language do you want to use, Tony? Irish Sign Language? If so, I know that a Deaf man named Patrick Matthews, in Dublin, has written a small Irish Sign Language dictionary in SignWriting. As you know, Sign Languages are not international. -- Val ;-> ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton ....visit the... SignWritingSite https://www.SignWriting.org Read & Write Sign Languages SignBankSite https://www.SignBank.org Sign Language Dictionaries DanceWritingSite https://www.DanceWriting.org Read & Write Dance MovementWritingSite https://www.MovementWriting.org Read & Write All Movement Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA phone: 858-456-0098....fax: 858-456-0020 |
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