This -- collaborative editing of persistent information -- is what Wiki's were invented for.
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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 <[email protected]> > To: Caller's discussion list <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Callers] Fw: Creating a CDSS dance depository > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > To: Caller's discussion list <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Rather than limit which dances get on the database and how, why not > 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.? > > I do, however, like the idea of having links to choreographers' > 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. > > My two cents, > > Andrea > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > >> On Dec 10, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Michael Fuerst <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> I just read the results of the CDSS caller's survey.? ( > http://www.cdss.org/tl_files/cdss/documents/how-to/CDSS_Contra_Task_Force_survey_report_05dec2013.pdf > ) > >> > >> One of the resulting suggestions was for CDSS to set up a dance > depository.? ? Here are my thoughts on this. > >> > >> > >> Considering the 1000's of contra (and other formation) dances that have > 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?? > >> > >> HOWEVER? (part 1) ..... > >> > >> CDSS should have a depository of dances, somewhat like the one on the > "Contra Dances by" section of Cary Ravitz's page http://ravitz.us/dance/ > >> While Cary's page links to dance author's pages, the CDSS page should > 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. > >> The folk process in some sense is maintained by people having to peruse > 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.? > >> > >> HOWEVER (part 2)? optional? .... > >> > >> The Caller's Companion (http://callerscompanion.com/)? provides a good > 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.? > >> > >> Michael Fuerst? ? ? 802 N Broadway? ? ? Urbana IL 61801? ? ? > 217-239-5844 > >> Links to photos of many of my drawings and paintings are at > www.ArtComesFuerst.com > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Callers mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > > _______________________________________________ > > Callers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > > > <>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<> > > Delia Clark > PO Box 45 > Taftsville, VT 05073 > 802-457-2075 > [email protected] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > > > End of Callers Digest, Vol 112, Issue 5 > *************************************** >
