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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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