21 Aug
2018
21 Aug
'18
11:37 p.m.
Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
This (mostly) contra dance database 12,000 dances:
5,000 dances with viewable instructions
4,000 more dances with links to instructions
Current search options include author, title, formation, and figures.
You can search the figures of dances even when we don't have
permission to show the figures.
This will always be a work in progress, but hopefully it's good enough to use.
Have fun!
(and a lot of questions should be answerable by the FAQ on that site.)
-Chris Page and Michael Dyck
p.s.
This has been (and continues to be) a long-term project. Michael and I
started formally working on this back in April of 2015, but I started
building my database back in November of 2010.
21 Aug
21 Aug
11:44 p.m.
Bravo. thank you.
~ When I dance, I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can
only be joyful and whole, that is why I dance. ~Hans Bos~ ~
On Tuesday, August 21, 2018, 11:37:55 PM EDT, Chris Page via Callers
<callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
This (mostly) contra dance database 12,000 dances:
5,000 dances with viewable instructions
4,000 more dances with links to instructions
Current search options include author, title, formation, and figures.
You can search the figures of dances even when we don't have
permission to show the figures.
This will always be a work in progress, but hopefully it's good enough to use.
Have fun!
(and a lot of questions should be answerable by the FAQ on that site.)
-Chris Page and Michael Dyck
p.s.
This has been (and continues to be) a long-term project. Michael and I
started formally working on this back in April of 2015, but I started
building my database back in November of 2010.
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22 Aug
22 Aug
2:43 p.m.
Congratulations on getting the database up! And thank you for the massive
effort you've put into it!
I'd write a dance to celebrate it, but I think you probably don't want a
dance with over ten thousand figures... heck at this point it'd be
understandable if you wanted us to stop writing dances entirely ;-)
Thanks again!
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:37 PM Chris Page via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
This (mostly) contra dance database 12,000 dances:
5,000 dances with viewable instructions
4,000 more dances with links to instructions
Current search options include author, title, formation, and figures.
You can search the figures of dances even when we don't have
permission to show the figures.
This will always be a work in progress, but hopefully it's good enough to
use.
Have fun!
(and a lot of questions should be answerable by the FAQ on that site.)
-Chris Page and Michael Dyck
p.s.
This has been (and continues to be) a long-term project. Michael and I
started formally working on this back in April of 2015, but I started
building my database back in November of 2010.
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Luke Donforth
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3:34 p.m.
Thanks for the resource! I've found it to be incredibly useful in answering
the "did someone already write this?" question, as well as tracking down
titles/authors for the dance snippets collected from others' calling.
-Don
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:37 PM Chris Page via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
This (mostly) contra dance database 12,000 dances:
5,000 dances with viewable instructions
4,000 more dances with links to instructions
Current search options include author, title, formation, and figures.
You can search the figures of dances even when we don't have
permission to show the figures.
This will always be a work in progress, but hopefully it's good enough to
use.
Have fun!
(and a lot of questions should be answerable by the FAQ on that site.)
-Chris Page and Michael Dyck
p.s.
This has been (and continues to be) a long-term project. Michael and I
started formally working on this back in April of 2015, but I started
building my database back in November of 2010.
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4:40 p.m.
On 8/21/2018 8:37 PM, Chris Page via Callers wrote:
Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
This (mostly) contra dance database 12,000 dances:
5,000 dances with viewable instructions
4,000 more dances with links to instructions
Current search options include author, title, formation, and figures.
You can search the figures of dances even when we don't have
permission to show the figures.
Wow! Thank you for all the time and know-how you two have put into
this! I look forward to browsing the site and getting comfy with the
search function. This sounds like an incredible resource.
Kalia
6:09 p.m.
This looks great, thanks Chris!
For my part you have permission to show any dances of mine that are included (there's
one that I sent to this list a few years back).
—Sam
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018, at 22:37, Chris Page via Callers wrote:
Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
This (mostly) contra dance database 12,000 dances:
5,000 dances with viewable instructions
4,000 more dances with links to instructions
Current search options include author, title, formation, and figures.
You can search the figures of dances even when we don't have
permission to show the figures.
This will always be a work in progress, but hopefully it's good enough to use.
Have fun!
(and a lot of questions should be answerable by the FAQ on that site.)
-Chris Page and Michael Dyck
p.s.
This has been (and continues to be) a long-term project. Michael and I
started formally working on this back in April of 2015, but I started
building my database back in November of 2010.
_______________________________________________
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Sam Whited
sam(a)samwhited.com
6:56 p.m.
Hi Chris,
I've gone ahead and added a short-link on contra.dance -
http://www.contra.dance/thecallersbox
Hopefully this can make it a little easier to share around.
Thanks for the work you two put into bringing this together!
Isaac
ps - you can check out usage stats for the link at
http://www.contra.dance/thecallersbox+
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 8:37 PM Chris Page via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
This (mostly) contra dance database 12,000 dances:
5,000 dances with viewable instructions
4,000 more dances with links to instructions
Current search options include author, title, formation, and figures.
You can search the figures of dances even when we don't have
permission to show the figures.
This will always be a work in progress, but hopefully it's good enough to
use.
Have fun!
(and a lot of questions should be answerable by the FAQ on that site.)
-Chris Page and Michael Dyck
p.s.
This has been (and continues to be) a long-term project. Michael and I
started formally working on this back in April of 2015, but I started
building my database back in November of 2010.
_______________________________________________
List Name: Callers mailing list
List Address: Callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net
Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/callers@lists.sharedweight.net/
23 Aug
23 Aug
4:34 p.m.
On 8/21/2018 8:37 PM, Chris Page via Callers wrote:
Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
I've just started seriously poking around in this site today and it's
fabulous. I can't thank the two of you enough for making this available
to all of us!
Kalia in Sebastopol
29 Aug
29 Aug
6:52 a.m.
Much hard work here, guys. Thanks for sharing it.
Is there an API for this? Feel free to answer this tech question privately.
\Bob Peterson
Bob(a)contracorner.com
\Bob
On Aug 21, 2018, at 23:37, Chris Page via Callers
<callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Michael Dyck and I have done a thing:
http://www.ibiblio.org/contradance/thecallersbox/
This (mostly) contra dance database 12,000 dances:
5,000 dances with viewable instructions
4,000 more dances with links to instructions
Current search options include author, title, formation, and figures.
You can search the figures of dances even when we don't have
permission to show the figures.
This will always be a work in progress, but hopefully it's good enough to use.
Have fun!
(and a lot of questions should be answerable by the FAQ on that site.)
-Chris Page and Michael Dyck
p.s.
This has been (and continues to be) a long-term project. Michael and I
started formally working on this back in April of 2015, but I started
building my database back in November of 2010.
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10:29 a.m.
On 2018-08-29 06:52 AM, Bob via Callers wrote:
Much hard work here, guys. Thanks for sharing it.
Is there an API for this?
No API, but the URL+HTML interface is pretty straightforward.
What kind of uses are you thinking of?
(If it sounds interesting, we could try to accommodate.)
-Michael
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