Many people and several organizations have lent their time and skills to the Auslan Signbank project. In particular:

Trevor Johnston (Editor)

Auslan Signbank has been made possible because of the existence of a comprehensive database of Auslan signs (the Auslan lexical database) which has been complied over the past two decades by Associate Professor Trevor Johnston, Centre for Language Sciences, Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney.

The Auslan lexical database has previously been used to produce several editions of the dictionaries of Auslan ("Auslan Dictionary", "Signs of Australia", "Discovering Auslan", and "Survival Guide to Auslan"), in both book and CD-ROM formats, which have been published by North Rocks Press (Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children, Sydney). All of these dictionaries have been authored, edited or co-edited by Trevor Johnston.

Auslan Signbank was first conceived by Trevor Johnston in the early 1990s but it was only after improvements in computer and internet technology in the late 1990s that it became truly practical. However, it was financial support from The Telstra Foundation in 2004-05 that first made it a reality under the auspices of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.

The following organizations have lent their time and expertise to the Auslan Signbank project.

Macquarie University, Sydney

The latest version of Auslan Signbank has been created under the auspices of Macquarie University, Sydney, and incorporates research funded by the University of London (Endangered Languages Documentation Program, School of Oriental and African Studies, grant #MDP0088) and the Australian Research Council (grants #LP0346973 and #LP0882270).

The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children, North Rocks, Sydney

The support of The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children has been fundamental in making possible the publication the revised and multi-media editions of the Auslan dictionaries. This culminated in the first internet version of Auslan Signbank in 2005.

The Telstra Foundation

The generous financial support of the Telstra Foundation to Trevor Johnston, The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children, and the Deaf Education Network is gratefully acknowledge. Without this support the first version of Auslan Signbank would not have been possible. It was produced in association with the Renwick Centre (The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children).

The deaf community of Australia

The support of the Australian deaf community in the Auslan research conducted by Trevor Johnston over the past two decades is deeply appreciated. There could be no database of Auslan or Signbank without the help, enthusiasm and participation of deaf people and deaf community organizations across Australia. We thank the members of the Australian deaf community for sharing their knowledge and language.

The names of the many individuals who have helped over the years are far too many to list here but they can be found in the acknowledgements to the various dictionaries that have grown out of the Auslan lexical database: "Auslan Dictionary", "Signs of Australia", "Discovering Auslan", and "Survival Guide to Auslan".

With Signbank, the on-going participation and support of the deaf community manner will be even more important.