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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: pcplantdb-piwdev <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Report to Threshold
  • Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:49:10 -0400

Richard Archer 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.

I was thinking about that and comparing it with with storage.
What's the difference, on the user end, between entering a large amount
of information on a variety of items and subjects in a wiki page or pages
and entering the same data into a database? What if the result you wanted
from the DB was
a nice outline or a list or maybe in other formats?

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.

You explained this to me before and I understand it better now.
Its just that data is so easy to enter into a wikipage and can be so diverse
(using
uploaded graphics as well as text) and add to this external linking and even
appending a blog with all its features.

I thought XML made wikidata portable so databases can import it?






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