permaculture

[John Schinnerer <eco_living@yahoo.com>]

Aloha,

> I propose that we use this as a staging area to collect data that
> you, the PFAF staff and others
> eventually put into the PCPlantDB. Heidi and her SOUL group could
> follow the same procedure.

Basic rule of programming - DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) - applies to
data entry too.

Put yer data straight into a suitable DB and skip the 'staging'. 
Otherwise you'll be putting it into the Wiki and then you'll have to go
find it later and enter it again into the DB.  And that will be a
*manual* process, unless someone is willing to write (and test and
debug) some whiz-bang scripts to extract data from a wiki response and
stuff it into a DB - which would require consistent format for data put
into a wiki and at least some basic consistency between the schema in
the wiki and the DB schema.

Put it in a 'real' DB (some SQL flavor) *once*.  Then it can be
relatively easily extracted into wikis and whatever other front ends
people want to create.


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John Schinnerer, MA
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