Sharing sign language data online: Experiences from the ECHO project

Crasborn, Onno A.; Mesch, Johanna; Waters, Dafydd; Nonhebel, Annika; van der Kooij, Els; Woll, Bencie; Bergman, Brita

doi:10.1075/ijcl.12.4.06cra

Article published In: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
Vol. 12:4 (2007) ► pp.535–562

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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

Published online: 20 December 2007

https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.12.4.06cra

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

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