Expertise in video production and web development persuade another academic research project to ally with EyeGaze.
Project Details
An ambitious research project involving five UK universities and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has begun with the aim of creating the foundations of a centralised archive of BSL data for ongoing research efforts to understand the language of the British Deaf community.
The British Sign Language Corpus Project will pool work from at least eight sites around the country cataloging signs from at least 240 Deaf individuals by means of video. To realise a project of such scope the lead partner - Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre (DCAL) at University College London - has teamed up with Bangor University, Herriot Watt University, Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Bristol.
EyeGaze Input
Over the coming months EyeGaze will be working with DCAL to design and develop a bilingual project web site with an easy-to-use Content Management System that will allow the non-technical project staff to add news items along with sign language video clips and update other areas of content quickly and painlessly.
The web site ( http://www.bslcorpusproject.org) is not only able to act as the public face of the project but it has been developed with a modular approach to allow for the integration of the corpus database for searchable online access to the catalogue of sign language video clips that will be produced along with the metadata that will describe them, if required in the future.
Keep your eye on this site or
www.bslcorpusproject.org for news of the site launch.
