pcplantdb

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

Sean Maley wrote:

> ... spelling error, scraping.  Basically, we do what
> google does.  We scan the web pages from other plant
> database web sites and archive the information with
> our own data.  This gathers information quickly and
> adds to the available information that this database
> provides for our users.  We may not have our own
> information for a given species, but could still have
> something to provide.  A simple report would provide
> all the available opportunities to add to the archive
> from a permaculture perspective.

Could you provide more explanation of what this is about and how it happens?
Seems we have been talking about incorporating data from other databases
and other text-based and marked-up (for the Web) data in archives, i.e. 
mailing list archives,
ftp archives, html-ized archives (mhonarc and hypermail) and you suggest 
"scanning"
select web accress for such data. What does this "scanning" consist of? Would 
this
produce an index of urls used to locate the various pieces of data 
themselves? Or would this
actually gather and archive this data on our machine for access and 
redistribution through PIW,
referencing the source and credit to its original location?

This sounds like a great idea.

> Sorry for the scrappy attention to detail, it's been a
> busy week.  (MSRB has been having their fun this week)

MRSB?

LL
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