The Sign Language Dataset Compendium

Credit

The Sign Language Data Compendium was created by Maria Kopf, Marc Schulder and Thomas Hanke.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following persons for their help in creating this resource:

Funding

This work is supported in part by the EASIER (Intelligent Automatic Sign Language Translation) Project. EASIER has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement n° 101016982.

This work has in part been produced in the context of the joint research funding of the German Federal Government and Federal States in the Academies’ Programme, with funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. The Academies’ Programme is coordinated by the Union of the Academies of Sciences and Humanities.

Revision History

Version Date Changes
1.0 17.06.2022 Initial release of website.
1.1 01.11.2022 Added 10 new resources, including some for four new sign languages. Improved metadata and introduced OLAC integration. Various content improvements and corrections.
1.2 28.12.2022 Added cite as section to entries. Added navigation between entries in web interface. Various content improvements and corrections.
1.3 11.08.2023 Added three new resources, including for one new sign language. First release of PDF version. Improved metadata for HTML and OLAC. Various content improvements and corrections.
1.3.1 11.10.2024 Updated e-LIS and DW-DGS entries, created DOIs for the Compendium.
1.4.0a 24.03.2025 New entries: Catalan Sign Language Corpus, SignaMed, Contemporary Turkish Sign Language Dictionary, collection task "Debate". Maintenance of many entries, including big update to CORLSE and change of URLs for all Global Signbank signbanks (now hosted by University of Amsterdam). New features: Many links now offer a backup link to an archive copy, references split between primary and other sources, metadata in CMDI format. (Note: This is a pre-release for peer-review purposes. The final archival version will follow in a few days)