kimberleyyu/KSL-front-end

ID Hack Kenyan Sign Language Dictionary, Feb 15-16, 2014 KSL-front-end ============= ID Hack Kenyan Sign Language Dictionary Rohit Ahuja, Jordan Canedy, Stephen Turban, Travis Yeh, and Kimberley Yu Part of front end for the "ksl: Kenyan Sign Language Dictionary" created for the 2014 International Development Hackathon. idhack.challengepost.com Using Node.js, we developed a website for a well-organized and easily-accessible Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) dictionary to allow Peace Corps volunteers to effectively learn KSL during their training period in order to teach KSL in Kenya. In addition to the lack of a standard dictionary, learning KSL is complicated by the many regional variations of words and phrases. With a visual language like KSL, a print dictionary is not effective, so our online dictionary provides videos for users to learn from. Improving on a past, pure-HTML, hard-coded version of the dictionary, we transferred data entries for the words into a MongoDB database, uploaded the videos onto YouTube to conserve memory, and implemented a search engine and upload capabilities for new dictionary entries.