This paper presents the results of a European project called ECHO, which included an effort to publish sign language corpora online. The aim of the ECHO project was to explore the intricacies of sharing data using the internet in all areas of the humanities. For sign language, this involved adding a specific profile to the IMDI metadata set for characterizing spoken language corpora, and developing a set of transcription conventions that are useful for a broad audience of linguists. In addition to presenting these results, we outline some options for future technological developments, and bring forward some ethical problems relating to publishing video data on internet.
@inproceedings{crasborn:04005:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Crasborn, Onno and van der Kooij, Els and Broeder, Daan and Brugman, Hennie},
title = {Sharing sign language corpora online: proposals for transcription and metadata categories},
pages = {20--23},
editor = {Streiter, Oliver and Vettori, Chiara},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2004} Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: From {SignWriting} to Image Processing. Information techniques and their implications for teaching, documentation and communication},
maintitle = {4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2004)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Lisbon, Portugal},
day = {30},
month = may,
year = {2004},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/04005.pdf}
}
| van der Kooij, Els | Broeder, Daan | Brugman, Hennie