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 < [email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net > >
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