Summary

“Signing Books for the Deaf” was the name of a EU project, funded under the TAP-DE (4209) programme, which ran from 1-1-98 to 31-12-99. Signing Books are videos (on tape, CD-ROMs or DVD) in sign language, for deaf sign language users. Blind people use 'talking books', Deaf people use 'signing books'.

Partners in the project were:

• FODOK (NL, main contractor)
• Pragma (NL, co-ordinator)
• City University (GB)
• Hamburg University (DE)
• Signum GmbH (associated partner, DE)
• sDG (financial management, NL)

The objective of the project was the development of guidelines for the production and distribution of signing books for the deaf: books in sign language, on videotape or CD-ROM. In 1999, we published the Guidelines on this website. In 2009, we copied and pasted the guidelines into this Wiki. Unchanged - the guidelines for the production, publication and distribution of signing books that you find here are 10 years old.

However, we will be adding new information, new guidelines. And because this is a Wiki, you can help us. Register and add your corrections and comments, guidelines and examples!