During the recent caller's survey, I think a database of dances was at the top of the list of what online resource callers wanted.
There have been several attempts at creating a dance database over the past decade-plus. They have all fizzled out, primarily for lack of volunteers with sufficient drive, free time, and coding experience to create such a beast. (Data entry and getting permissions requires less technical skill, and can be farmed out amongst a larger committee.) -Chris Page San Diego On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:46 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 > _______________________________________________ Callers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net
