Re: creating online plant database

[Claude Genest <genest@together.net>]

A friend of mine recently completed, as a thesis, a fabulous compilation of
PC plants for the Northeast, including entries for their ecological
functions.

It is availabe on Cd-Rom for pc's....

I'd be happy to send a copy to whoever needs it for the database.....

Claude

> From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
> Reply-To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:44:41 -0600
> To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: Re: creating online plant database
> 
> Im willing to create the database & create a web interface for it as long as
> no one
> is in a hurry to get it done.  My experience so far is that it isnt that
> complicated,
> but there is an initial period of beta testing aspects of it to make sure it
> works on
> different platforms (mac & pc) & on differerent browers (ie & netscape).
> being a mac
> person I definitely could tech all the mac aspects of it & possibly could get
> a work
> buddy to help with the pc end.
> 
> 
> the part where Im less clear how it could work would be the following.
> suppose we
> create a record for buartnut.  say 6 different people enter different data in
> the
> same field, for instance in the field for USES.  how do we make sure that no
> one
> overwrites anyone elses data?  what procedures would we use for verifying the
> accuracy of the data?  something like this has the potential to be VERY
> valuable if
> there is a core of people/sites slowly inputting their infos.
> 
> also Im just beginning to learn the intricasies of creating searches & this
> might be
> an area where some assistance would be needed.  for instance what I would like
> to do
> once this database gets going is to create a field  for SITE.  on the
> dreamtimevillage.org website then I can hook to that database & have our
> webpage
> display only those entries of plants that are growing at Dreamtime.  (there
> would
> also be a web front end for the database as a whole which could also be
> separate
> link)...
> 
> as for everyone's suggestions, if we are going to do something collective than
> I
> would say that just about everything suggested is relevant to a plant
> database.
> individual webpages can be configured to display whatever data that person
> felt was
> relevent.
> 
> seems like a good cold weather project.
> 
> 
> mIEKAL
> 
> "Lawrence F. London, Jr." wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:06:01 +0100, "georg parlow"
>> <georg@websuxxess.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>>> a database that the whole permaculture list could access & enter data at
>>> their
>>> 
>>>> I can do that part here at ibiblio: password protected login
>>> 
>>> i strongly support this project, but unfortunately i am of no help in
>>> creating the base. i would certainly do my share in filling it with data.
>>> the zope.org sure does look like the way to go - i will propably go into
>>> that as soon as i have a bigger machine available (my harddrive is as full
>>> as a drive can be - quite annoying, really), but this and the learning
>>> process - so i wont be of help before 6 months or more.
>>> 
>>> but (again), i would greatly appreciate to have this ressource available to
>>> make my personal data collection available to others - currently it is
>>> mostly on my bio-computer, and while people do use it a lot, it always needs
>>> my participation, naturally.
>> 
>> What more reason to do the DB than this. Let's go for it.
>> John, Miekal, shall I set up a PW protected area for the project?
>> 
>> LL
>> 
>> L.F.London ICQ#27930345 lflondon@mindspring.com
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech  london@ibiblio.org
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