The Dance Database is a new open data backbone for the Scandinavian social dance community which the author is happy to be a part of.
This repository has scripts to help populate and fix issues in the database.
One place where event organizers publish their events which can then be fanned out to mulitple applications and used in LLMs by everyone.
It's similar to what musicbrainz is for CDs or Wikidata is for notable world events.
Questions the collected data should support answering
- When does the event start and end
- Which other events collide
- How far from me is the event
- What is the schedule?
- When does registration open?
- Are there tiered prices and what are they?
- Who is the organizer?
- Where can I sign up?
Questions it should not answer:
- How do I get there? (can be solved via GraphHopper or similar services)
- What did this organizer organize before? (can be solved using SPARQL)
- Are there lodging nearby (Openstreetmap or similar can be used)
- How can I contact the organizer (we only provide an organizer website link for now)
We decided not to include the following based on the user cases above email: str = "" phone: str = ""
- create a versioned open specification for dance event data
- provide an API that anyone can use to build end user applications upon
- provide a database with FAIR event data
- increase findability for dance events
- non-profitability of the project
- a website directly used by dancers to find dances (others do that better).
- an image hosting service.
- A UI that make it easy for event organizers to add events
- A stable service over time run by donations/contributions for the good of everyone in the community
- Something that runs in Kubernetes and is reliable and scalable
- FAIR data with GUPRIs
- Graph data and statistics
All code is under GPLv3 and all data in data/ is licensed CC0.