Permaculture Database

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

jedd wrote:

>  I wanted a system that would facilitate sharing those suggestions.
>  it would need to handle projects, each of which would include a place
>  to dump images (a JS etch-a-sketch wasn't important), a forum slash
>  mailing list to manage the discussions about same, perhaps a
>  manually aggregated summary page (wiki) purely for the 'customer'
>  to be able to see the distilled, net result of ideas presented
>  in one place, a way of tagging the project partly for future
>  reference (searching) but also to more easily categorise the
>  information about the project (aspect, scale, climate) that could
>  be summed up in v.short phrases or just single words. 

In a wiki, for instance, accumulations of randomly generated aggregates
surrounding a variety of topics, i.e. nitrogen fixing trees, shrubs and 
perennials
would, imho, invariably result in gems of distilled essence destined for 
input in
"database" or static file display or non transient but revisable/peer reviewable information, such as you'd typically 
find in a wiki, i.e. Wikipedia. Fortunately we have assess to the same software running that, MediaWiki,
available to be installed on ibiblio.

LL

This is a fascinating discussion; I hope we can keep it going.

Lawrence
lflj@intrex.net
lflj@bellsouth.net
http://www.ibiblio.org/permaculture
my project in need of much work...