[silence] {Disarmed} Re: Cage Reference Sought

[Joseph Zitt]

Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of control of the archive. I wish we did.

A keyword searchable archive might be one way to do things. I suspect
we'd need the Cage Trust to approve it, though.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:35 PM, David Badagnani
<davidbadagnani@yahoo.com> wrote:
> One way to do it might be to "dump" all of Cage's written (and
> spoken/transcribed) text into a single database, which could be searchable
> by keyword, as our own listserv's archives are--as is done, for example, for
> the Bible (see
> http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=%22chance%22&qs_version=9
> ).
>
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> --- On Fri, 1/30/09, Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com> wrote:
>
> From: Joseph Zitt <jzitt@metatronpress.com>
> Subject: Re: [silence] {Disarmed} Re: Cage Reference Sought
> To: "Silence" <silence@list.mail.virginia.edu>
> Date: Friday, January 30, 2009, 4:25 PM
>
> This sounds like a wonderful idea. I have a feeling that tools
>  and
> methodologies for this might already exist. Indexing is a tricky task,
> not as automatic as it might seem.
>
> Might any of our Information Science pros have any insight?
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Rob Haskins <rob_haskins@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>> Yes indeed--I would be willing to contribute to such a resource! We could
>> have people devoted to specific books, specific time periods, etc. and
> come
>> up with a Cage Wikiconcordance.
>> Rob
>>
>>
>> Rob Haskins
>> Assistant Professor of Music
>> University of New Hampshire
>> rob_haskins@yahoo.com
>> MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from
> "robhaskins.net"
>>
>  claiming to be http://robhaskins.net
>> http://musicandmiscellaneous.blogspot.com/
>>
>> "Heroism doesn't consist in brilliantly combatting someone else.
> . . .  What
>> is heroic is to accept the situation in which you find yourself."  --
> John
>> Cage
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: "kos@panix.com" <kos@panix.com>
>> To: silence@virginia.edu
>> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 3:51:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [silence] Cage Reference Sought
>>
>> So often so many people are seeking Cage references.  "Where did he
> say x?"
>> seems like a typical question on this (and other) e-mail lists.
>>
>> Wouldn't it be great if a team of people got together and drew up a
> plan for
>> systematically going through Cage's writings and "indexing"
> them, nothing
>> where
>> he cites people, works, ideas, events, etc.  Perhaps it could be a wiki or
>> some
>> other database where people could participate (especially if they're
>> planning on
>> reading his works).
>>
>> Having such a database would be of great help to many - and might spur
>> additional research on Cage and his world.
>>
>>
>> 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/blogs/bob-kosovsky
>>   Listowner: OPERA-L ; SMT-TALK ; SMT-ANNOUNCE ; SoundForge-users
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