CARD-friendly Data

CARD-friendly data is annotated consistently.

Annotation files are created to render the primary video data searchable. In order for the annotation files to be easily searchable, they must be in the same format and follow the same conventions.

Our values

Video data (not to be reduced to just "data" but language use) should be accessible or machine-readable.

We document diverse ASL communities and types of interactions. 

We honor the values of the ASL communities and acknowledge the plurality of experiences and multiple ASL trajectories and identities. 

Our work is rooted in use and description.  

The Sign Language Annotation, Archiving, and Sharing (SLAASh) annotation conventions grew out of an earlier project to annotate and share child ASL data. These conventions have also been the foundation for several subsequent projects.

Julie has made a figshare collection with SLAASh information. In that collection, you can find previous coding manuals and posters summarizing previous iterations of the conventions. Julie also has a link to the current annotation conventions on figshare. Here is a quick and visual guide to the conventions.

The important thing to keep in mind with annotation conventions is that they may change slightly due to the nature of the project(s) and the team's research goals. But we want to balance this with keeping things as consistent as we can. So, please use SLAASh as your foundation!