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Re: Fw: Creating a CDSS dance depository (Perry Shafran) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 03:51:32 -0800 (PST) From: Perry Shafran &lt;pshaf(a)yahoo.com&gt; To: Caller's discussion list &lt;callers(a)sharedweight.net&gt; Subject: Re: [Callers] Fw: Creating a CDSS dance depository Message-ID: &lt;1386762692.7054.YahooMailNeo(a)web120704.mail.ne1.yahoo.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I'm trying to figure out why having a database of dances would detract from the folk process. ?Isn't the folk process considered the handing down of material from person to person, generation to generation? ?And should that not also include the way that material is handed down? ?I think that a database of dances is extremely helpful to the evolution of the folk process. ?When the web evolved, people put their dances on the web for all to see, use, adapt. ?Now we have the cloud, and callers can share their dances using a cloud-based database. ? Considering that this is what was highly requested on the survey, I think that we need to find ways to create this repository of dances that also respects the rights of the choreographers who write them. ? Perry ________________________________ From: Delia Clark &lt;deliaclark8(a)gmail.com&gt; To: Caller's discussion list &lt;callers(a)sharedweight.net&gt; Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 11:05 PM Subject: Re: [Callers] Fw: Creating a CDSS dance depository I agree with Andrea.? I find the annotations that folks provide on this listserv to be the most helpful part.? If we allowed a wide range of dances in the database, but then opened it up for commentary, sort of like Yelp or Amazon or other user reviews, I think we'd get a lot of useful intel on each dance. On Dec 10, 2013, at 7:16 PM, Andrea Nettleton &lt;twirly-girl(a)bellsouth.net&gt; wrote: allow reviews of said dances.? If it had a clunky moment for one dancer, tends to get saw toothed, or has other issues, it might get fewer stars and an explanation.? Choreographers could choose to pull or amend a dance so reviewed, and callers could decide for themselves whether the reviews will apply in their situation.? The folk process works better the more information and dances are out there, not by artificially limiting, based on some committees personal tastes and particular filters regarding appropriateness.? There might be some requirement that a dance needs to have been successfully danced by at least two or three communities to qualify or something so every person who thinks they can write doesn't post a bunch of useless dances.? I think making it be more work for CDSS? to put a dance up impedes the project unnecessarily.? websites, and maybe even a caller's companion-sequel search engine, so one could look for say, an biter mediate dance with a hey and a mad robin, and come up with all the dances in the database which fulfill the request. wrote: http://www.cdss.org/tl_files/cdss/documents/how-to/CDSS_Contra_Task_Force_s… ) depository.? ? Here are my thoughts on this. written, of varying quality and difficulty, I have reservations about a single global contra database.? Such a database detracts from the folk process.? And who is to say which dances are worthy of placement in such a database?? "Contra Dances by" section of Cary Ravitz's page http://ravitz.us/dance/ get copies of each author's dances, formatted however that author formatted them (e.g. .rtf, .pdf or .html), with the CDSS page containing links to these copies.? Authors should be able to send an updated file to CDSS up to say 3 times a year.? This will preserve the author's dances when s/he? terminates his/her web site.? These links could include .pdfs of out-of-proint dance book. these various author pages in order to find dances.? A discussion board, maybe even the current Shared Weight forum, would be the place for for callers to discuss these dances.? model of how an on-line database might work.? Many? aspects of this program will work as a model for an on-line dance database.? So in addition to the pages susuggested in HOWEVER (part 1), CDSS could also set up an on-line database and intially populate it with at most 200-300 dances, selected by CDSS staff or a committee, of various difficulties and formations.? Any CDSS member, and only CDSS members, should be allowed to add a dance to this database of remove a dance s/he inserted.? Dances on a page from HOWEVER (part 1) may well end up in this database.? 217-239-5844 www.ArtComesFuerst.com <>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<> Delia Clark PO Box 45 Taftsville, VT 05073 802-457-2075 deliaclark8(a)gmail.com _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list Callers(a)sharedweight.net http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers End of Callers Digest, Vol 112, Issue 5 ***************************************