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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [pcplantdb] security model
  • Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:08:09 -0600

Interesting discussion about the wikipedia article. One way that I
can see to handle the data with a direct affect on the security model
and difficulty of implementation (both favorable) is to implement it
in a way so that all data is "user-owned" and is editable solely by
the owning user. From a security standpoint damage from account
compromises are limited to the account itself. Can't remember who
said this but it all clicked for me when someone suggested the idea of
having individual user versions of plant data that can be
scored/arranged by peer review/locale. This is a lot less messy than
allowing collaborative editing with histories, etc. of a single set of
data.

One difference from wikipedia, for example, is that we wouldn't have a
single "authoritative" version of something, but would instead have
many versions that would be rated and displayed based on peer review.
I'm not sure if this would be a downside or an advantage.

Another difference that may be an actual disadvantage (although I
can't think of specific reasons) is that from a technical standpoint
the data would not actually be edited collaboratively, but would
instead be consist of multiple versions (or edits) of the same data.

Anyway,
Chad

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Chad Knepp
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