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Stuart Thiessen Date: Mon May 8, 2000 7:44 pm Subject: Re: SW in Databases | ||||||||||||
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At 09:25 05/08/2000 -0400, you wrote: > I can even include graphics with this, just by providing a link. >Suppose I had gif files with pictures of everyone, named valerie.gif, >stefan.gif, mark.gif and wayne.gif. I could add the filenames to my >database: > >Valerie,USA,ASL,valerie.gif >Stefan,Germany,DGS,stefan.gif >Mark,Japan,NS,mark.gif >Wayne,USA,TSL,wayne.gif (Some stuff snipped here) > In fact, there are many utilities that can convert a flat database >from one format to another; it's fairly easy to write one in Perl. Using Perl and Perl/Tk, you could come up with a program that could store the spoken language, meaning, etc. as text and SW as an image. We would need to add some kind of representation in text so that there would be a way to sort and compare the two langauges. This could be done with a reasonable amount of work. It could be quite portable across Mac, MS, and Unix/Linux platorms (I'm fairly confident for MS and Linux systems). The problem lies in developing some kind of linear way of expressing the Sign Sequence for that sign. The SGML option sounds intriguing to me. Its strength is in its built-in ability to communicate. My only question is with the ability to sort and organize the signs after they are in that format. But again, that may be possible and I just don't know about it. Thanks, Stuart Stuart | ||||||||||||
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