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- From: "John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>
- To: "Permaculture Plant Database" <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:49:34 -1000 (HST)
Aloha,
The below seems functionally equivalent to my 'plain-language' question
examples...if you took one facet of my question at a time, anyhow, it
would look similar to this:
> > BTW, faceted searches seem like they'd work great for taxonomic
> > identification...
> > Find a trait of the plant (that you understand or can observe), flower
> > color = red...
> > OK, all the red flowers come up...
> > It's got a tree habit...
> > OK, getting close, only 30 matches...
> > Pea-shaped flower...
> > 2 matches. Locust...(racking my own limited DB... :-P )
>
> This explains faceted searching better to me. Yes this would be some
> interesting coding. How do you know what to start with? Like what
> start with flower color and not flower shape? Or do you start with
> all of the options and it just continues to narrow the resuts?...
It seems it wouldn't matter where you started, yes?
The successive filtering would end up with the same results, I think...??
John S.
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[pcplantdb] relationships implementation,
Chad Knepp, 03/22/2005
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Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation,
Richard Morris, 03/22/2005
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Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation,
John Schinnerer, 03/22/2005
- Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation, Bear Kaufmann, 03/22/2005
- Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation, Bear Kaufmann, 03/22/2005
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Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation,
Chad Knepp, 03/25/2005
- Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation, John Schinnerer, 03/26/2005
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Re: [piw] Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation,
Richard Morris, 03/26/2005
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Re: [piw] Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation,
Richard Archer, 03/26/2005
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Re: [piw] Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation,
John Schinnerer, 03/26/2005
- Re: [piw] Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation, Chad Knepp, 03/26/2005
- Re: [piw] Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation, Richard Morris, 03/28/2005
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Re: [piw] Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation,
John Schinnerer, 03/26/2005
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Re: [piw] Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation,
Richard Archer, 03/26/2005
- Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation, Bear Kaufmann, 03/27/2005
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Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation,
John Schinnerer, 03/22/2005
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Re: [pcplantdb] relationships implementation,
Richard Morris, 03/22/2005
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