Re: Re: Searchable Cage texts

Hi Eric,

I confesss I've done this - not with Cage but with another music author whose 
writings fascinate me. In this day and age of text mining, it's really the way 
to move ahead with research.

But I would much rather first have the blessing and go-ahead from the Cage 
Trust.  And perhaps with university-based resources, a really good database 
could be constructed.


Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Eric Theise wrote:

> 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
>> blog:  http://www.nypl.org/blog/author/44   Twitter: @kos2
>>   Listowner: OPERA-L ; SMT-ANNOUNCE ; SoundForge-users
>> --- My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my institutions ---
>>
>>
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