Permaculture Database

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

Welcome Ken,

I saw your post, intended to respond, then got busy.  I think our 
population has become a little listless lately (LAWRENCE -- whats our 
list population?).  It may be useful to do a little marketing for core 
membership.  I have been the principal tinkerer of the wiki lately 
(having no coding expertise), but still consider working on the better 
permaculture wiki as part of developing a better understanding of how a 
more structured dataset would have utility -- many of the folks with DB 
expertise have come and gone, but will likely come again.

Bless Mr. Rich Morris for his sysop skills (Salix alba on the wiki).

I arrived as some of the same ideas you expressed, and considered the 
wiki platform the venue for working that angle.  I have been trying to 
develop a taxonomy of permaculture related information.

My idea at this point is to build a good clean structure for a wiki, a 
system of introductory pages, and a means of tagging and searching 
articles, then populate some preliminary articles, and then work on 
marketing that space as a good home for synoptic knowledge base, as well 
as a home for people wanting a cheap flexible not-for-profit internet 
presence for information transfer.

Rich has an extraordinary plant DB that could be transfered.  We have 
not had any/many discussions about that.

If you are not familiar with wiki here are some useful pages in this wiki:

http://www.permaculture.info/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.permaculture.info/index.php/PIW:Community_Portal
http://www.permaculture.info/index.php/Special:Specialpages
http://www.permaculture.info/index.php/Special:Recentchanges

--Paul Cereghino