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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Chad Knepp wrote:

> This is a pretty cool article, still seems pretty forward looking at
> over a year old.  Even more interesting than what it was saying about
> wikis were some of the related developing technologies.
>
> Stephanie, you gotta check out Haystack.
> <http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/> Is this what you were looking for?
>
> Rich, have you thought about the possibilities of using WebDAV for the
> client side editing.  I don't actually know much about it.  There are
> other interesting links on the page. 

Does sound very interesting.

 In particular the Annotea
> project <http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/> part of w3c's semantic web
> stuff <http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/> looks interesting. 

Now annotation is kind of cool for our purposes. We might want to
annotate content in various ways.
Here content could be:
        the information about a plant
        an article (say someones opion piece on self-willed land)
        other media (photos, sound, movies)
And the annotation could be
        a comment about the content
        a rating for how good the content is
        author info (?)

A standard class for annotation could be a good idea?

Currently the pfaf site could be seen to follow a content-annotation 
scheme. In that none of the content can be changed, but users
are able to add anotation (comments) to most of the content
(basically static web pages and plant database pages).

Of course some content will be more Wiki like.

> Lawrence F. London, Jr. writes:
>  > 
>  > <http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/apr03/mattison.shtml>
>  > 
>  > Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool
>  > by David Mattison ? Access Services Archivist ? British Columbia Archives, 
> Cananda
> _____

Most relavant quote for us:

>>>>>>>>
DM: What are your thoughts about wikis as hypertext-based information 
retrieval tools?

BL: Wiki is an absurdly simple database tool, very informal. Probably 
optimal for the kind of ill-defined or shifting needs that an individual 
has for organizing personal notes or for Web-published meanderings. Less 
suited to formal database environments where entry format must be 
specified and access more controlled. That said, wiki implementations 
have been constructed as front ends for MySQL engines, corporate team 
tools, and support sites. Wiki has scaled far better than expected.
>>>>>>>>




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