A worldwide community of Scottish country dancers
A worldwide community of Scottish country dancers
This is a database of information related to Scottish country dancing. It contains a wealth of entries describing dances, tunes, people, publications, recordings and albums, all interconnected. You can use this WWW interface to query the database (in an utterly simple-minded manner) without having to install special software on your own computer; there is also a free-standing version for Windows 95/98/NT which is available from Alan Paterson's site. The free-standing version has many more features; most notably, it allows very complex queries of the data.
The data is being collated by Alan Paterson of Berne, Switzerland, who has graciously made it available to the SCD community. It derives from various similar endeavours such as the dance indices of Keith Napier and the late Barry Priddey (the Sutton Coldfield Index) and tune information by Peter Hastings. Many people have contributed to make the data more complete and correct (even though this work is by no means finished); a complete list of credits is available from Alan's site (see above).
This WWW front-end is being developed by Anselm Lingnau, and Alan has nothing whatever to do with it! All the software problems with this site are Anselm's fault.
The whole affair is very much a work in progress; please excuse occasional problems, inaccuracies and mistakes or, even better, let us know about them so we can fix them! You can submit problem reports from various places within the database. Also, if there is a feature that you'd like to see, let us know.
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