Comments on: We Have Ignition http://nikku.net/blog/we-have-ignition/ The Art in the Business of Theater - Collaboration Tools and Technology and the Storefront Theater Movement Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:17:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: read write play - links for 2008-04-02 http://nikku.net/blog/we-have-ignition/#comment-212 read write play - links for 2008-04-02 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:44:30 +0000 http://nikku.net/blog/we-have-ignition/#comment-212 [...] We Have Ignition An interesting discussion of the potential of Dan Granata’s (he who currently gives me a place to sleep) Chicago theatre research project.. (tags: theatre research) [...] [...] We Have Ignition An interesting discussion of the potential of Dan Granata’s (he who currently gives me a place to sleep) Chicago theatre research project.. (tags: theatre research) [...]

]]> By: Nick Keenan http://nikku.net/blog/we-have-ignition/#comment-199 Nick Keenan Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:55:18 +0000 http://nikku.net/blog/we-have-ignition/#comment-199 I usually follow the "If you build it, they will come" principle. It worked for backstagejobs - use of that site has doubled since we made it user-editable. There are elements of this that are more personal - facebooky kind of stuff - which means we need to tread lightly where subjectivity is concerned. I'm also going to get in touch with the chicago theater history project once it's rolling and get them in on the game... they have a similar database that has only one purpose - determining where old show archives are kept. I think if we combine these applications, the combined data will be both easier to collect and ultimately more valuable. I usually follow the “If you build it, they will come” principle. It worked for backstagejobs - use of that site has doubled since we made it user-editable. There are elements of this that are more personal - facebooky kind of stuff - which means we need to tread lightly where subjectivity is concerned.

I’m also going to get in touch with the chicago theater history project once it’s rolling and get them in on the game… they have a similar database that has only one purpose - determining where old show archives are kept. I think if we combine these applications, the combined data will be both easier to collect and ultimately more valuable.

]]> By: Bilal http://nikku.net/blog/we-have-ignition/#comment-198 Bilal Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:39:53 +0000 http://nikku.net/blog/we-have-ignition/#comment-198 Up until Friday, I had a copy of almost every program for every show I'd seen in the past twenty years, in part because I liked looking back and recognizing names that may have recently blown up. Due to our need to streamline for the upcoming move, Dana and I decided to toss all of these except for those in which we were directly involved. Had I but known, I might have been willing to donate them for this project. <i>C'est la vie.</i> The CTDB is a great idea in principle and I have no doubt that there are enough of us out there with a decent personal database of people we've worked with or have watched work (or who we go out of our way to <i>see</i> work) that creating the CTBD itself may require more time than investigative effort. I do wonder how to make it more widely known as a tool. Up until Friday, I had a copy of almost every program for every show I’d seen in the past twenty years, in part because I liked looking back and recognizing names that may have recently blown up.

Due to our need to streamline for the upcoming move, Dana and I decided to toss all of these except for those in which we were directly involved. Had I but known, I might have been willing to donate them for this project. C’est la vie.

The CTDB is a great idea in principle and I have no doubt that there are enough of us out there with a decent personal database of people we’ve worked with or have watched work (or who we go out of our way to see work) that creating the CTBD itself may require more time than investigative effort. I do wonder how to make it more widely known as a tool.

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