pcplantdb

["John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha again,

A quick "ditto" to Chad's comments, and I will add some further thoughts here:

> Althought this may seem like quite a jump, another way to create a
> framework of collaboration is the a distributed peer-to-peer
> network....
> The cons are primarily around creating something so large
> and complex that it is a barrier to entry.  The web is easy to use for
> almost everyone and I can't see a way to make some of the aspects of
> a distributed peer-to-peer network as brainless as the rest of the web.

I am still strongly thinking that an object DB is a way better match for what
we want to do than an RDBMS.  Plants have attributes and methods - at least I
can  conceptualize this better that way than the tables and rows and stuff.
A plant is an object.
The attributes encode/express plant qualities, functions, relations, etc.
The methods enable manipulation (add, modify, delete, share, sort, query,
etc.) of the attributes.
This seems even more appropriate if thinking of the peer-to-peer sort of
system.  A pretty simple web UI would let people create/modify/etc. plant
objects and object relations, etc. (subject to the graffiti/moderation
controls of course).



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