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  • From: Bear K <bear@ursine-design.com>
  • To: john@eco-living.net, Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Job One
  • Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:24:54 -0800

Agree with Lawrence and Rich.
We've already been around this discussion way back - got to have a back end (DB and 'data engine') before we can have a front end; dev and test of back end requires a simple/straightforward front end to support it (and also be initial/generic/low bandwidth front end, especially for all that *input* we are hoping to get from somewhere out there).
Fully agree. I believe I mentioned that I wanted to see the back-end discussion restarted. I've mentioned a few DB related ideas without much response.

Looking at RDF is looking very exciting, especially with this http://139.91.183.30:9090/RDF/
See http://139.91.183.30:9090/RDF/RQL/Manual.html to see what it can do. See Figure 1 on that page.
Flexible, extensible, RDBMS backend, RDF/XML interchange, OO concepts.
Then we could work on actually developing a schema.
Chad, do you think this is something that could work? It needs a C++ compiler, Postgres DB. Do you have SSH access on the ibiblio account? It seems like something which could make expansion of the project easy, as it seems the library handles the table creation in the RDBMS, etc. We could start developing the relationships, classes, etc. Start with the PFAF db, then easily connect more relationships to the plants (microorganisms, etc). This system would also seem to allow things like: Assigning information to plant Families, Genus, etc with information about the group as a whole (botanical differences, etc). The vocabulary Chad set up could be set up, with each value having a long(er) English description, then perhaps translatable to other languages. These would be accessed through RQL, and wouldn't require updating hardcoded information. This would also seem to allow easy addition of comments, and authorship info.


Cheers,
Bear


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