Permaculture Database

[Paul Cereghino <paul.cereghino@comcast.net>]

Lonnie Brown wrote:

> Check out HyperPhysics:
>
> http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html

very nice concept...
now if you could dynamically generate a simple mind map of an 
object/node and all immediately related object nodes as the top (or 
bottom) of a page used to summarize the attributes of an object.  
Furthermore attributes of the mind map could reflect attributes of the 
relationships between nodes... distance from root (with root being the 
current node) color, thickness of the line being the number of 
relationship linkages, or their 'certainty'... This would have the 
function of Alexanders final paragraph where he identifies patterns at a 
larger and smaller scale that relate to the pattern being considered.

I am still struggling with what things/concepts are objects and what 
things/concepts are attributes of objects, and what things/concepts are 
the landscape setting -- I think that this will resolve as we play out 
some real world user scenarios... Bob the soap maker (an icon in our 
family) wants to break into gardening to support his home natural 
soapmaking business.  How does he approach the website, and how does it 
become useful to him, and ultimately how do we entrain his soapmaking 
ingredient knowledge.