pcplantdb

[Fred Stutzman <fred@metalab.unc.edu>]

Richard,

See reply below.


On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Richard Morris wrote:

> Dear Jon and Fred,
> "Lawrence F. London, Jr." wrote:
> > Rich and all:
> >
> > I just talked with Fred at ibilio (MetaLab) who requested that you
> > get in touch with him regarding details of setting up the resources we
> > need.
> > Your idea of using phpMyAdmin to get us up and running to the point
> > where we can start
> > configuring the database and entering data is what we need.
> >
> > ibiblio already runs MySql and PHP.
> >
> > The ibiblio folks you'll need to work with are:
> >
> > Jon Magid  jem@ibiblio.org
> > Fred Stutzman  fred@ibiblio.org
>
> Hi there. I guess Lawrence has explained the basic idea behind the
> database, which is to produce an open source plant database
> which will be a collaborative project where people can add data
> about plants. I guess the plant information may will be similar
> to the Plants For A Future database which is already running on
> ibiblio.
>
> The projects very up in the air at the moment but the way I envisage
> it is as a set of linked databases. There will probably be a few
> key authors who each be responsible for one of the databases
> and another database which can be amended by other people on the web.
> Data from all these databases will be combined when users search
> for a particular plant.
>
> For the project well need a user id, or maybe a set of user id's,
> for the key authors. We also need mySQL for the databases
> and php to do the user interface. As some of the authors
> are not database experts I'm hoping to used a web based
> db administration tool (phpMyAdmin) which should be usable
> across the web by the key authors.
> We'll also be developing a web interface for use by the general
> public.
>

Please contact Donald Sizemore (dls@ibiblio.org) with the user accounts
you need created, and the databases you need created.  I'm sorry for not
getting back to you in a timely fashion, things have been kind of hectic
lately.  If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact
me.


Thanks!
Fred Stutzman





> I hope that the info you need. Drop me a line if you have
> any other queries.
>
>       Regards
>
>               Rich
>
> p.s. thanks for hosting the pfaf db
>
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