[oats-sig] SVG Open 2007: Pictograms with Natural Language Based and Semantic Information

SVG Open 2007: Pictograms with Natural Language Based and Semantic

Just a quick update, following a recent chat with Andrew Lysley...

We are producing symbols at a rate of about 50 per month and we're now
approaching 750 in total.  We use Adobe Illustrator to create them, but
initially planned to publish them in .wmf format.

The hold up in publishing has simply been a delay in finishing off our
website, through which a team of 20+ Speech and Language therapists (and
others inc teachers) will review each symbol to confirm their suitability
for use in lo and hi tech AAC settings, prior to publishing them.

I note from my version of Illustrator that it can save images in SVG and
SVGZ formats, so I will provide our symbols in this format too, although
I'll need to test the process.

I shall be chatting to Steve offline for advice to help overcome the holdup
with our own website.

For info, our symbols will be published with Creative Commons license
BY-NC-SA

Cheers,
Garry Paxton

-----Original Message-----
From: stevealee at gmail.com [mailto:stevealee at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Steve
Lee
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 7:54 AM
To: garry paxton
Subject: Fwd: [oats-sig] SVG Open 2007: Pictograms with Natural Language
Based and Semantic Information

Hi garry, I'm not sure if youre on the 0ATS list but thought this from
Jonanthan might be of interest.

Steve

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steve Lee <steve at fullmeasure.co.uk>
Date: 7 Sep 2007 07:51
Subject: Re: [oats-sig] SVG Open 2007: Pictograms with Natural
Language Based and Semantic Information
To: OATs Project Special Interest Group <oats-sig at lists.becta.org.uk>

On 07/09/2007, "~:'' ありがとうございました。" <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com>
wrote:
> SVG Open 2007: Pictograms with Natural Language Based and Semantic
> Information
>
> "a prototype system for pictogram authoring"
> http://svgopen.org/papers/SVGOpen2007abstract/

Thanks Jonathan,

I understand there is a work in progress to create a repository of
open symbols  which may be available in SVG format.

Plus I'm developing Jambu to use SVG natively and was thinking support
for using Inkscape to create the symbols is important.

How did you author the peepo symbols?

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Steve Lee
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Steve Lee
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Open Source Assistive Technology Software
PowerTalk - your presentations can speak for themselves
www.fullmeasure.co.uk