1 Aug
2014
1 Aug
'14
2:25 a.m.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014, Michael Fuerst via Callers wrote:
Actually a global contra dance database seems like a bad idea. Who
will decide what dances merit placement in the database? A much
better idea is for CDSS to maintain a web page with either copies of
web page(s) with authors' dances, somewhat like Cary Ravitz now does:
http://ravitz.us/caller/ It would be best for CDSS to keep a copy of
each composer's dances, so to preserve them when the author dies.
Overall, this makes sense; however, remember that Maia is partly doing
this for programming practice. There's an old programmer saying: "Rough
consensus and running code," which means that working code trumps most
other considerations. I think your proposal runs the risk of having
nothing because people will spend time talking and talking and talking
and talking about it; if Maia's project pans out, she could (should!) be
encouraged to turn it over to CDSS to run and maintain it.
Anyone could submit page(s) of dances, and CDSS would
make no
judgement as to the quality of the dances. One might want to set up a
mechanism so an author can edit the pages with her/his dances Visitors
could then peruse any author's dances, and initiate discussion about
specific dances on a forum similar to this one.
The design discussion for these features is in many ways completely
different from the basic database design discussion, with all kinds of
security/privacy issues. They can be tacked on by competent programmers
more-or-less independently of the underlying database. I strongly
recommend skipping it for now.
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