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Re: [pcplantdb] moving on III

From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] moving on III
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:03:51 -0700

Richard Morris wrote:

Whats going through my mind is having a wiki page
with
Topic name
Keywords - a number of keywords describing the topic
Intro - short paragraph intoducing topic
(can use this in search results)
Main text - rest of text
Links - place to add links
References - place to add references
Names of plants - add plant names here so can cross ref
with main db.

Using a wiki to gather information in these categories is what I would like
to accomplish
and is the reason I suggested using wiki in tandem with the database.

Here is source info for a typical wikipage, in this case:
Kinship Gardening
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/pcwiki/index.php/KinshipGardening

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
<meta name="keywords" content="Kinship Gardening, PcWiki" />
<meta name="description" content="The map "is essentially a genetic skeleton of the entire plant kindom. In practical terms, it allows us to identify and preserve a representative sampling, subsets from the diverse biological groupings which constitute the family album of the plant gene pool. It also opens a window into the analysis of specific characteristics. For instance, Dr. Kapuler was fascinated to learn that carrots and ginseng are relatives, and that many medicinal plants fall mainly into distinct groups. In theory, this Kinship roadmap can serve as an encoded genetic database for nations and bioregions to use as a systematic method for conserving diversity. (quoted from the Seeds of Change website) />
<meta name="language" content="" />
<meta name="document-type" content="Public" />
<meta name="document-rating" content="General" />
<meta name="generator" content="phpWiki" />
<meta name="PHPWIKI_VERSION" content="1.3.4" />
<base href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/pcwiki/index.php/"; />

Is the above example of XML coding adequate to implement with wikipages what Rich describes can be done with participating networked websites sharing XML-coded pages?

Richard Morris wrote:
> The independent media centre's (IMC's) are a network of sites
> publishing alternative content (often of a leftfield
> nature).
>
> http://www.indymedia.org/or/
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/
> http://seattle.indymedia.org/
> etc.
>
> I think they are an interesting model to follow.
> An important part for me is that they are a network
> of cooperating sites. They use XML to share their
> headlines around the network and also include them
> in sites like slashdot.
>
> I think networks of sites are an important part
> of the permaculture information web. For one we will
> be a network of at least two site, the pfaf site
> and permaculture.info. I am very keen on
> sharing my links
> sharing event details
> so someone can publish an event on the pfaf site
> and it can appear on the piw site.
>
> Building a network between the different permaculture
> site I feel is very important and in some ways
> makes the host question disappear.

This describes something I think we should use permaculture.info
for whenever it becomes possible to add such an extranet.

LL
--
L.F.London
lfl@intrex.net
http://market-farming.com
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech

Re: [pcplantdb] moving on III, Richard Morris, 09/01/2004
- Re: [pcplantdb] moving on III, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 09/01/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [pcplantdb] moving on III, Stephanie Gerson, 09/01/2004
- Re: [pcplantdb] moving on III, Stephanie Gerson, 09/03/2004
  - Re: [pcplantdb] moving on III, John Schinnerer, 09/04/2004