Re: Searchable Cage texts

Hi Bob,

This is something I've considered building, at least for Cage's books, but
always hesitated at the combination of the work involved and the fear that
a copyright take down order would render all the work useless.

Shall we convene a small silence task force? Membership open to anyone
equipped with a scanner and the ability to run tesseract-ocr?

Eric


On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:38 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Philip Thomas wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a PDF or similar of the Art Lange interview with Cage
>> from 1978?
>>
>
> This query reminds me of a project I wish the Cage Trust would consider: a
> searchable database of all of Cage's texts.
>
> Think of a Google or HathiTrust search for copyrighted texts.  You get the
> sentence in context with an explanation of where it is found, and that's
> it. U.S. Courts have found this to be legitimately within fair use.
>
> Wouldn't it be a useful tool of all of Cage's writings were in a
> searchable database that anyone could query to find references for
> particular quotes? All those queries of half-remembered quotes could be
> directed to the database and the correct quote found (or proved to have not
> come from Cage).
>
> I'm thinking of it just as a quick means to find quotes, but I'm sure
> other researchers could think of even more creative uses of such a database.
>
> How much more legitimate such a project could be under the aegis of the
> Cage Trust.  (I hope you're listening Laura - and hi!)
>
>
> Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
> Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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