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

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

>  > Or, do we
>
> intend to completely replace this dataset with relationship-oriented 
> data?  Clearly, we’ll still have info on individual plants – but to 
> what extent will information be individual vs. relational?  
>
>
> Yep wheres the data coming from? Hopefully Heidi will be able to 
> contribute some.

> > HEIDE, PAULA, AND ANYONE ELSE!  DATA WILL COME FROM USERS.

And gleaned from existing databases and datasets aand various info sources
like text file collections, wikis, etc.

> I'd say Steve is probably right. The data we have got is good for some 
> purposes, but not really well targeted towards the needs of commercial 
> growers. I don't really know what their requirements are, but it is a 
> good question to ask.

> I'LL BE LOOKING INTO THIS NOW.  STEVE AND LAWRENCE AGREE THAT IF WE WERE 
> TO CATER TO MARKET FARMERS, OUR ENTIRE VISION WOULD HAVE TO BE RE-WORKED.  

A two part system for PIW.

> HMMM.  I'LL CHECK THE INFORMATIONAL RESOURCES STEVE SUGGESTED AS BEING 
> ESPECIALLY USEFUL TO MARKET FARMERS, TALK TO LOCAL EXTENSION AGENTS, AND 
> SEE WHERE OUR INTENTIONS AND THEIR NEEDS INTERSECT.  I KNOW PAULA IS 
> COLLECTING GUILD-RELATED DATA *WITH* FARMERS, SO IT'S POSSIBLE.  AND IF 
> NOT (AT LEAST, NOT AT THIS POINT), THAT'S FINE TOO.  
>
> I'LL ALSO INTRODUCE THIS TOPIC TO PIW WHEN I RETURN FROM MY TRIP.

Amen.

LL
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