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Re: PC online DB
- To: permaculture
- Subject: Re: PC online DB
- From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 23:34:23 -0500
- Newsgroups: permaculture
- Organization: Venaura Farm
- References: <LISTMANAGER-137576-29638-2001.11.22-00.19.50--eco_living#yahoo.com@franklin.oit.unc.edu> <136102@permaculture>
- Reply-to: lflondon@mindspring.com
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 00:26:57 -0800 (PST), John Schinnerer
<eco_living@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Aloha,
>
>> Good point, but if those who have online access will collect and
>> disseminate to those without online access - acquire and tailor
>> bodies of information, port it to paper, cd, or any other
>> media/multimedia and give it away or sell it for price of cost
>> recovery, the gap will have begun to be bridged.
>
>Thus my earlier question about how to increase accessibility of info
>gathered for any computerized DB project. Holistic portability to
>written and oral culture needs to be designed into the DB if we are
>serious about this aspect of it, and I don't think that designing will
>be trivial. Most DBs are designed for computerized consumers, and are
Just a quick thought about this. The results of a DB search could
produce a record with a user selectable list of output formats:
audio file, video file, text file (ascii or UNIX mailbox format
textfile), PDF or HTML. The audio files can be put on casette, video
onto vcr videotape.
L.F.London ICQ#27930345 lflondon@mindspring.com
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech london@ibiblio.org