Permaculture Database

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

Rich Morris wrote:

> Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
>
> > There are RSS feeds for content-driven websites but some of these offer XML 
> > feeds.
> > What exactly are the implications for this?
> >
> > Here are definitions I Googled:
> >
> > Definitions of XML Feed on the Web:
> >     * A simplified version of HTML that allows data to be sent to search 
> > engines in the format that they can interpret.
> >       www.awsp.com/search-engine-glossary.html
> >     * Also referred to as Trusted Feed. A process where web pages are fed into the search engine index for maximum 
> > keyword exposure. More commonly used for database driven sites where multiple search queries can apply.
> >       www.whitespace-strategy.co.uk/knowledge_phrasebook.php
>
>
> I think XML feed is just another name for RSS/Atom feeds.
>
> There is also the OpenSearch format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch
>
> And google sitemaps which give google a few hints on how to search and 
> display results from your website
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sitemaps
>
>         Rich

Thanks Rich. Those links were helpful.

Someone in another forum mentioned "intelligent automata" and I remembered 
hearing about
Stephen Wolfram's cellular automata theory. The Wikipedia entry for this 
contains suggestions that
this system may accurately describe natural processes throughout the 
universe. This may then have some
bearing, though very remote, to permaculture relationships and guilds. Back 
in the pcplantdb era
I thought a lot about heirarchies of relationships in a natural system on a 
piece of land,
or 100 square feet, for that matter; the implications that the most basic, 
elementary ecological relationships
in a system have for the whole system and for contiguous systems. The 
language used by microorganisms,
invertebrates, insects, mammals and plants to communicate consisting of chemical, electrical, light, sound, pH, moisture 
and nutrient signals create complex relationships between the elements of any given natural system. This must play a 
large part in determining the biodiversity, robustness and overall health of any given site. Taking an inventory of
the components of such systems and all observable site features could be helpful to a permaculture designer when 
involved in site restoration as well as site development with increased diversity and production capability in mind.

I think I'll post some of this to the PC list to see if there are any takers.

Curious whether a formal announcement of the pcdb wiki should be made to the 
permaculture list (771 members now,
05/20/2007 - 105 more members than on 06/06/2006 when there were 666 
subscribers).

LL
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