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  • From: Sean Maley <semaley@yahoo.com>
  • To: pcplantdb-piwdev <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Report to Threshold
  • Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 06:49:56 -0700 (PDT)

--- Richard Archer <pcplantdb@juggernaut.com.au> wrote:
> At 9:17 AM -0400 7/6/06, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
>
> >Making wiki-based interactive online resources available makes it easy
> >to acquire quality data like this
> >and its portable so can be accessed by your database.
>
> Wikis generally store plain text.
>
> Databases generally store highly structured data.
>
> The two aren't easily interchangeable. So if you set up
> a wiki to collect data you're going to have plain text.
> It would be a nightmare of mythical proportions to
> transform that text into structured data which can then
> be analysed efficiently.
>
> ...Richard.

This is how Google works, which is quite effective. You essentially keep a
lookup table of words
to cheat looking through all of the plain text.

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