Sharing sign language data online
Experiences from the ECHO project
Onno A. Crasborn | Radboud University Nijmegen
Johanna Mesch | Stockholm University
Dafydd Waters | University College London
Annika Nonhebel | Radboud University Nijmegen
Els van der Kooij | Radboud University Nijmegen
Bencie Woll | University College London
Brita Bergman | Stockholm University
This article describes how new technological possibilities allow sign language researchers to share and publish video data and transcriptions online. Both linguistic and technological aspects of creating and publishing a sign language corpus are discussed, and standards are proposed for both metadata and transcription categories specific to sign language data. In addition, ethical aspects of publishing video data of signers online are considered, and suggestions are offered for future corpus projects and software tools.
Keywords: manual-visual modality, sign language, linguistic typology, metadata standards, video corpus, linguistic transcription conventions
Published online: 20 December 2007
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.12.4.06cra
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.12.4.06cra
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