pcplantdb

[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

Comments on the "plan" document (our internal stuff) - dunno who wrote 
what, I'm just pasting in bits that I have some comment on:

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So what *are* we attempting to deliver in Phase One? My own vision of 
the software is this:

An application that assists in identifying new Guilds and exploring
existing Guilds. ...
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I think a plant info database with initial steps towards 
permaculture-centric abilities is realistic for phase one.
I think an app that identifies/explores guilds is unrealistic, unless 
that (guilds, to the exclusion of all other more general DB functions) 
is our one and only focus starting now and until the deadline.

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As for the database, whether intially RDBMS or ODB, I would like to see
more in depth discussion about the schema design and serious effort made 
towards normalization. I did some initial research to other university
efforts and it is indeed a complex piece of work.
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Yes indeed, and this still needs doing.

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Additionally, is the project *just* the database, or is it the front-end
to the database, or a combination of both?
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To develop/test the DB, we have to have some kind of basic/initial front 
end, so both are involved.

I think if we have a pc-centric plant db with self-registration for 
users, user security/authorization mechanism, reasonably good searching 
abilities, reasonably good data display options and basic add/edit data 
functionality by the year deadline we will have done pretty darn good.

Comments on the other doc coming up shortly...

John S.

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