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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg@galatea.org>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] .l.a...v.i.s.i.o.n.
  • Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 19:08:48 -0500

Richard Morris writes:
> <snip>
>
> > > 15 Re:The American view of the world
> > > 15 RE: Major histocompatibility complex (MHC)
> > > 15 Biogas digester plans
> >
> > Wow interesting stats!
> >
> Yep I think it helps to get a feel of the sort of questions
> people ar interested in.
>
> Simply generated. I've been saving permaculture posts in a folder
> since 2001 and
>
> grep "^Subject" permaculture\ digest | sed "s/Re: //" | sed
> "s/\[permaculture\] //" | sed "s/Subject: //" | sort | uniq -c | sort
> -rn | more
>
> gives the list. The unix commands grep, sed, sort, uniq, cut
> give a great db query language.

I also have hopes/plans that HG will be manipulatable by
non-standard/custom clients. Having a well defined API will allow all
kinds of roll-your-own end-user exploring/tinkering.

> > > With a bit of thought and a lot of discussion
> > > we can try to put these into some sort of graph structure.
> > > With each node as a specific topic.
> >
> > Also think of the relationships themselves as atomic elements, like
> > for example, the kind of relationship worms have with soil and the
> > relationship worms have with compost/vermiculture. The relationship
> > itself is information, not just a link.
>
> Indeed, it would be possible to give relationships a class.
> Theres several systems out there which does this.

Yep. I've been thinking about the sorts of things you could do with
the meta-information created by just looking at the relationships and
not the elements themselves.... Hmmm, relationships of relationships.

> > I also think that things can
> > have the relationship of being similar to other things (a set) such as
> > animals or annual garden plants... sort of categories. I think this
> > relationship would be helpfull in generalizing some relationships such
> > as chicken --> annual garden plants is largely the same as chicken -->
> > cabbage and doesn't require just duplicating the same thing in chicken
> > --> broccoli, chicken --> kale, etc.
>
> First though was that you have really got
> chicken -> brassica
> and the other links are really specialisations of the above.
> Theres a very good case for data at the genus and family level.
>
> However
> chicken --> annual garden plants
> does not work so simpily as annual garden plants cross over many families.

Very true. I thought about it after that a chicken --> tomato is very
different than chicken --> kale.

> >
> > > After a lot of work organising we could probably come up with
> > > a network representing much of permaculture.
> > > A touch graph type interface could make it fairly quick to
> > > navigate to the particular topic of interest.
> >
> > Speaking of TouchGraph, have you looked at it?
>
> Yep see
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/pcplantdb/PlantFamilyTree/PlantFamilies.html
>
> which is a touch graph map of the plant kingdom.

Excellent! Nice proof of concept. Everybody check this out if you
haven't already.

--
Chad Knepp
python -c 'import base64;print base64.decodestring("cHlnQGdhbGF0ZWEub3Jn")'




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