Re: [Callers] Giant dance database?

Are you familiar with Will Loving's software? Www.callerscompanion.com Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Dugan Murphy via Callers &lt;callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt; </div><div>Date:07/28/2014 1:51 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: callers@lists.sharedweight.net,callers-request@lists.sharedweight.net </div><div>Subject: Re: [Callers] Giant dance database? </div><div> </div>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 On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:30 PM, via Callers &lt;callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt; wrote: Send Callers mailing list submissions to callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to callers-request(a)lists.sharedweight.net You can reach the person managing the list at callers-owner(a)lists.sharedweight.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Callers digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Giant dance database? (Maia McCormick via Callers) 2. Re: Giant dance database? (Jeff Kaufman via Callers) 3. Re: Giant dance database? (Aaron Redfern via Callers) 4. Re: Giant dance database? (Chris Page via Callers) 5. Re: Giant dance database? (Dave C via Callers) 6. Re: Giant dance database? (Luke Donforth via Callers) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:46:22 -0400 From: Maia McCormick via Callers &lt;callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net&gt; To: "Caller's discussion list" &lt;callers(a)sharedweight.net&gt; Subject: [Callers] Giant dance database? Message-ID: &lt;CAHUcZGPnOw-jPZ0J0YuXJg-uqXm2+Vj--ZC8OxSiT1qw-NAQLQ(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net