pcplantdb

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

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

> 2. Lawrence and I both like the idea of writing a non-technical summary 
> of the manner in which information will be organized – for our purposes 
> and to post on our website (and perhaps for grantors as well!).  Chad, 

GOOD project for us - or some of us

> 3. Lawrence and I also both liked the idea of making a list of Pc-centric 
> characteristics (which you will be able to search by, learn about, and 
> potentially sort by as well).  Chad, would you like to make the first 

VERY GOOD project to work on

> 4. To all the techies in the house – would it be possible to ‘sort 
> results’ by multiple characteristics?  I prefer Lawrences tree to my cube 
> – stick to the metaphor, of course!

I was thinking of a 3 dimensional sort (your suggestion) of attributes with 
each dimension
accessing a tree of related, organized attribute possibilities [maybe I need 
to think about that one for a while
and map it out on paper]. Ex. one atribute might be nitrogen fixation and a 
tree of related attribute data about that
might be which bacteria species are symbiotic with which plants and it/they 
like which soil conditions and which climate -
all data that might link to other plants and other ecosystems or ecological 
niches in the database.

> So I wanted to let you all know that I’m really looking forward to 
> spending considerably more time on hg (again) soon – really sprucing up 
> the website, 

researching IE, brainstorming the UI and user experience,

I look forward to contributing to this any way I can.

LL
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