Permaculture Database

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

jedd wrote:

>  What I don't understand is the delineation between the plant database
>  and the permaculture database.  If the latter relies on the former for
>  table lookup (I'm not sure this qualifies them as separate db's by
>  definition) then the designers of the latter either sit around and
>  wait for the former to be written and the API & schema published,
>  or they are involved in writing both.  If the same set of people
>  are writing both systems, then you've just extended the time it'll
>  take to develop either by a factor of something greater than 2.

My take on this:

There only needs to be one database, one that contains much plant information,
eventually information about other living things encountered in a 
permaculture system,
one that has the ability to reveal relationships between these things.

The concept would be a permaculture database, a discovery tool showing the relationships between elements in a 
permaculture system, useful for system design and guild documention. Maybe a future enhancement could include
a general permaculture information resource (a Permapedia).

Adding a wiki, blog and cms might make it easier to expand the scope of the project without making the relational 
database any more complex than necessary.

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