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  • From: Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>
  • To: PCPLANTDB <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [pcplantdb] Re: [piw] Information I would like to see
  • Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:01:35 +0000

Heide Hermary wrote:

Hi all,
As part of our Certificate program in Organic Landscape Management we (Gaia College) developed an interactive plant database for our students. As one of their assignments our students are required to thoroughly research 5 plants according to the following criteria, and enter the information in the database:
NOMENCLATURE: Botanical Name(s), Common Name(s), Family
DESCRIPTION: Type (woody or herbaceous perennial, annual, etc.), Size, Rate of Growth, Form, Trunk or Stem, Buds, Foliage, Flowers, Fruit. CULTIVARS
PROPAGATION METHOD(S)
NATIVE HABITAT
TOLERANCE TO CULTURAL CONDITIONS
RELATIONSHIPS (synergistic / antagonistic) - this includes companion plants, pollinators, animal and microbial predators (so-called pests and diseases) - and yes, some can be both antagonistic and synergistic at the same time.
VALUABE ATTRIBUTES (food, fiber, medicine, etc.)
REFERENCES

Students are required to upload lots of pictures and create links to on-line reference material, but they are also required to describe the plants (in plain text) for search purposes.

The goal was to eventually make our database available to the public - once we had it "perfected". I can see from the discussions that this planned database will surpass anything we could achieve with our limited technological capabilities and funds. I also think it would be desirable to cooperate and pool our energies on this venture for everybody's benefit.

If your database can accommodate our needs for identification features (including searches) I would switch our students - and the information we have collecged so far - over as soon as you are ready.

Do you think this would be possible?

Cheers, Heide Hermary
Gaia College
http://www.gaiacollege.ca


I say go for it. Just the sort of thing we need.

It does open up some interesting technical Q's, on how to merge two databases. I suspect this is the sort of thing we will have to deal with in the future, so now would be a great time to explore the problems of integrations.

Rich





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