28 Jul
2014
28 Jul
'14
1:11 p.m.
During the recent caller's survey, I think a database of dances was at
the top of the list of what online resource callers wanted.
There have been several attempts at creating a dance database over the
past decade-plus. They have all fizzled out, primarily for lack of
volunteers with sufficient drive, free time, and coding experience to
create such a beast.
(Data entry and getting permissions requires less technical skill, and
can be farmed out amongst a larger committee.)
-Chris Page
San Diego
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Maia McCormick via Callers
<callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
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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