Maia,
If you're not limited to a database project, you might consider a project of a
more graphical nature. It would useful to have an application that can
interpret dance instructions and generate a video of the dance.
There are 1 or 2 very simple ones out there, but graphics are poor and the
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
More discussion on contra dance copyrightability, which I didn't
include before because I didn't want to send us off into legal land:
http://www.jefftk.com/p/can-you-copyright-a-contra-dance
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To: Maia McCormick
This is a GIANT project.
People associated with CDSS have had thoughts of undertaking such a
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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
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Last I heard, Nils Fredland was the person at CDSS associated with the
project.
There are non-online versions that allow searching in various ways. You
might take a look at Caller's Companion http://callerscompanion.com to see
something already out there.
On Jul 28, 2014 10:46 AM, "Maia McCormick
I am curious. I got Chris' reply email in my inbox today stamped at 1:11 pm,
but I never received the initial email from Maia that was sent at 7:46 this
morning. I have noticed this on other occassions as well. Is anyone else
getting reply messages but not the initial message??? Can a mod pl
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 dr
My guess is a lot of people who write dances would be happy to contribute,
but trying to wrangle all the callers and dances does seem pretty daunting.
Presumably older dances are in the public domain, either by clearly defined
intellectual property laws or implicitly via the folk process. What if
I think this is a great idea, and the main non-technical limitation is
writing to lots of callers to get their permission to include their
dances. Several people have proposed something similar, but the
actual work of checking with lots of callers has been too daunting.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10
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 infring
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