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Valerie Sutton Date: Mon Jun 18, 2001 8:36 pm Subject: Hello Everyone! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SignWriting List June 18, 2001 Hello Everyone! Thanks for the great posts...Tini and Charles, your poetry is great ;-) Stefan - Congratulations on all your workshops! I am so happy to know that you are building a team in Germany...that surely must make you feel satisfied inside, to see the strides you have made in such a short, short time ;-) Who knows? Maybe someday you will have a SignWriting List just for German-speaking signers? The GebaerdenSchrift List - ha! Of course, we have all missed your animated posts....but now you have an audience in Germany that is more important! I adore the animated person who washes his or her hair, without actually having hair! Beautifully animated as always...and it kind of reminds me of me (grin ;-) And Cecilia Smith and Cecilia Flood...nice to hear from you ;-) Teaching SignWriting in sign language classes...that is wonderful. If hearing people learn to sign, and also learn to read and write signs at the same time, that would be a real step forward... I have had such an interesting time lately. First, I really had no choice but to upgrade the computers here...which I did. But the final comedy was today. I got a "fast internet connection" installed last week called "RoadRunner", which is a service here in the US. Generally it has been a blessing, because I can now transfer larger databases through the internet with a faster connection, but there have been rediculous frustrations too. There is special software called a Firewall, that is supposed to deny hackers access to hurting your computer. So I installed this special Firewall software. You won't believe what happened? It denied ME access to my own web sites - ha! I finally had to un-install it and I am still struggling with it! I have been working with a brand new FileMaker programmer named Todd. I met him last Tuesday. I called Todd, because the average FileMaker programmer has trouble doing what I am requesting...namely....developing the SignBank database in FileMaker so that it can "lookup" by Sign-Symbol-Sequence (the SSS). I showed Todd the design I want to implement in databases, so we can search by SSS. Todd has been doing FileMaker databases full time for 13 years, so he is more of an expert than most. Of course, Todd doesn't know sign language or SignWriting, so I mapped out the entire structure of the SSS for him, to give him a feel for what needs to be done internally, inside the database. Yesterday, Todd came back, after only a few hours work, with a wonderful plan for the internal calculations of the programming. He mapped out how FileMaker will access all the Sutton symbols in SymbolBank, making the "searching by symbol" easy for the user. Once he finalizes the structure of how the database will function internally, then the burden is on me personally, to complete SymbolBank, which will hold every symbol, with every rotation, variation, palm facing and so forth...in the entire Sutton system. Each minute variation of symbol is given its own separate ID number in the computer, so that "sorting" can be done automatically later. The result will be a totally visual database for SignWriting users. Without realizing there are ID numbers hidden under the symbols, the user will be able to sort by sequence in a variety of ways, completely staying in the visual world of SignWriting. I am quite excited about it. Ha! I have jumped around a lot in this conversation! Todd and I are hoping to have the "sorting and searching by Sign-Symbol-Sequence" ready for a "test run" by FileMaker users in the Fall. So my summer will be adding symbols to SymbolBank and doing web design. Would any of you enjoy learning and discussing the Sign-Symbol-Sequence on the SignWriting List? I could start with the first symbol, and explain each one with a diagram, and just go through each symbol one by one....that would give everyone an overview of all the basic symbols... Just a thought! Thanks once again everyone - and have a great day! -- Val ;-> ----------------------------- Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite: https://www.SignWriting.org SignWriting List Archives: https://groups.yahoo.com/group/sw-l/ To post a message to the SW List: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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