28 Jul
2014
28 Jul
'14
6:51 p.m.
Hi Maia,
It sounds like what you're talking about is a more complex version of
Michael Dyck's Contradance Index: http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/index/.
So a publicly accessible database already exists, but it is only searchable
by title or author (not by figure or figure combination) and there is
actually no dance choreography in it (all search results are references to
where the dance is published elsewhere, either in print on online).
Dugan Murphy
Skowhegan, Maine
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Hi all,
I'm currently in programming school casting about for programming projects,
and I had the idea of a giant searchable contradance database, where you
can filter by move combination, etc.
My question: is this something people would be interested in having? Or
does it run the risk of infringing on intellectual property, or
shortchanging dance writers on book sales, etc.? (Obviously no dances would
be included without the author's permission, but it may be that making a
huge ton of dances freely available and searchable in one place online
would be a death blow to published books of dances, or have some other
negative effect I'm not foreseeing right now...)
Anyway: does anyone have any thoughts on this project?
Cheers,
Maia
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