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Maintaining the Stories of the Deaf Communities at Gallaudet
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posted on 2019-10-04, 20:47 authored by Julie HochgesangJulie Hochgesang, Emily ShawHochgesang, Julie A. & Emily Shaw. (Oct, 2019). "Maintaining the Stories of the Deaf Communities at Gallaudet" Conference Presentation at Maintainers III Conference, Gallaudet University, Washington DC.
Although the challenges of representing a language with no written form continues, best practices of signed language documentation provide solutions that enable accessible representation of ASL through digitally shared resources that can be time-aligned to primary data using annotation software (ELAN, 2018) along with the ASL Signbank (Hochgesang et al, 2018). The underrepresentation of sign languages in general has led to repeated misunderstandings of the project and devaluing by stakeholders and funders. However, it is through the description and subsequent uses of this unique collection that the community value will become apparent. It is the primary aim of this project to compile and maintain a representative, accessible and lasting ASL resource for, by, and with the Deaf ASL community furthering the ideal of representation through documentation. GUDA then is the representation of ASL stories through combining ASL videos and data archiving protocols.