Collections of ASL for Research and Documentation

What is CARD?

The name Collections of ASL for Research and Documentation (CARD) refers to both a research philosophy and a resource hub. It is inspired in part by other data efforts such as the Austin Principles of Data Citation, FAIR, and CARE.

The philosophy behind CARD is that, in order to be useful for communities and for linguistic research, ASL materials must be accessible and searchable. This philosophy has been described in a 2021 paper published in Sign Language Studies. The vision is also displayed in a 2019 poster from TISLR in Hamburg!

The resource hub is the website you are currently browsing. This is a place where we link to materials that have been collected and processed under the CARD umbrella. Not all of the materials linked here are fully accessible or searchable yet, but it is a work in progress.

Professor Julie A. Hochgesang in the Linguistics Department at Gallaudet University has been the primary architect of CARD. On her website and on her figshare page, you can find a lot of resources that either directly support or are broadly aligned with the CARD philosophy. Julie also expands on CARD in this 2019 presentation:

(Note that prior to 2024, the project name was GUDA rather than CARD)

Hochgesang, J. A., R. Treviño, J. Willow, & E. Shaw. (2019, March). "Gallaudet University Documentation of ASL (GUDA) - Documentation IS Representation". Presentation at Georgetown University Roundtable (GURT) 2019 - Linguistics and the Public Good, Georgetown University, DC. https://youtu.be/ilmEe1kUOL0 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13356041.v1

Julie also explains this visual representation starting at around the 12:50 mark

You can cite the following materials to recognize CARD efforts:

Hochgesang, Julie (2020). Collections of ASL for Research and Documentation (CARD). figshare. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5223824

Occhino, Corrine, Fisher, Jami N., Hill, Joseph C., Hochgesang, Julie A., Shaw, Emily, & Tamminga, Meredith. (2021). New Trends in ASL Variation Documentation. Sign Language Studies 21(3), 350-377. http://doi.org/10.1353/sls.2021.0003

Fenlon, Jordan, and Hochgesang, Julie A. (2022). Signed Language Corpora. Gallaudet University Press.

Hochgesang, Julie A., Lepic, Ryan, & Shaw, Emily. (2023). W(h)ither the ASL corpus?: Considering trends in signed corpus development. In E. Wehyrmeyer (Ed.), Gaining ground in sign language corpus linguistics (pp. 287–308). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.108.11hoc Access the preprint here: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20394285.v1

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