28 Jul
2014
28 Jul
'14
5:39 p.m.
A more interesting programming task, and more useful, would be to design &
build a system that facilitated crowdsourcing dance definitions. You'd
want some kind of authentication and reputation tracking system, and
perhaps a lexography of dance moves for cataloguing -- although Peter
Norvig cites the "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data", and he's been there
and done that for semantic analysis of language.
I wonder if CDSS would consider hosting such a system?
I presume you'd make it open source. No money to be had, I think.
- Roger Hayes
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:46 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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