pcplantdb

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

Richard Morris wrote:

>  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).

One distince benefit of a relationships database or CMS is serving as a 
whiteboard for users/developers -
a way to record stray thoughts, ideas, concepts and assorted bits of data to 
be reassembled at some future time
in an organized or semi-organized way to illustrate some new concept.
I have lots of snippets of , to me, really valuable pieces of information or 
pieces of the puzzle, as it were,
that I have on my computer or in collections online, that are gard to keep 
track of -
I read something interesting and notice a connection to a piece of data I archived 8 years ago, _somewhere_, and want to reread it. Where is 
it? Good idea to allow users some space in HG to brainstorm and keep notes and be able to link to this area from comments they add to 
records. Their brainstorm area (BS) could be considered a miniproject-in-development and linked to by other users for whatever purpose.
Wikis do this, especially TikiWiki, as a CMS.

Relationships appear in different contexts:

1) within guilds (mixed organisms, i.e. snails + clematis)
2) communities (one organism, many communities)
3) within stacked functions
4) within the major/macro components of a pc system or within or between pc 
zones, climate
5) within micro systems, i.e. soil environment: mammals, birds, reptiles, 
invertibrates, insects, microorganisms; bacteria, fungi,
   arthropods, actinomycetes, protozoa, nematodes, prokaryotes, eukaryotes, 
viruses, as well as the soil profile and makeup, enzymes, macro
   and micronutrients, CEC, pH, OM content

HG, as a way of teaching or illustrating ideas and concepts, could provide 
galaxies of external links to outside educational resources.
This would assist and encourage users who submit resources to the database. 
Of course these links would be part of the database.
This is something I am curious about: what proportion of the total body of information made available by HG would be non-HG proprietary 
resources gleaned from outside sources?

LL
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