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  • From: webmaster@pfaf.org
  • To: pcplantdb-piwdev <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Report to Threshold
  • Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:49:40 +0100

Richard Archer wrote:
At 9:17 AM -0400 7/6/06, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:


Making wiki-based interactive online resources available makes it easy
to acquire quality data like this
and its portable so can be accessed by your database.


Wikis generally store plain text.

Databases generally store highly structured data.

The two aren't easily interchangeable. So if you set up
a wiki to collect data you're going to have plain text.
It would be a nightmare of mythical proportions to
transform that text into structured data which can then
be analysed efficiently.

...Richard.

On the countary see
http://82.138.219.137/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
a semantically marked up wiki with the pfaf and a few other datasets in.

Rich

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