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orchid database?
"J Fortuna" wrote in message news:C1C3f.19356$at1.6533@trnddc05... I was wondering how many people here have a database for keeping track of your orchids, and if you do what kind of info do you store in your database? Well Joanna, While I haven't done it yet, I hope to have a prototype developed over the next year or so, as a web application. This would be set up to include the kind of data already described in your post and those of the other two. But to make it really useful, I'd have a section where one can enter morphometric data and track how the geometric description of the plant changes through time, as well as environmental data, perhaps even supporting mini weather stations (PAR, temperature, humidity, &c.) along with things like potting media, or what the plant is mounted on, if it is mounted, watering and fertilizing regimes, &c. Eventually, it may even support genetic finger prints. The idea is to be able to support routine taxonomic analyses, and use these to provide provisional identification of noids, and then possibly to genetic finger prints to support such an ID. Once I get it established, the more people who participate, and document the culture they provide to their plants, the more likely it becomes that the system can ID a noid. Equally importantly, or the user can visit the web application, supply a description of their growing environment and the types of plants they're growing, and then see the range of cultural practices that have been tried, and with what outcome. No Joanna, you're not weird. What you're trying to do is quite sensible. What you include in your database is entirely up to you, and should be determined by how you understand your present needs. There is little point in collecting data for a given parameter if you don't know how you'll use it. If you keep it up, it is certain that your database will evolve over the years. It is also certain that my needs will be different from yours. I am approaching this as an expert in decision support software who began as an environmental scientist with a strong background in biostatistics and numerical taxonomy. But, with the breadth of my experience in software engineering, I can design this so it will be as useful to a secondary school student just learning how to grow plants as it would be to a research scientist, with each user using what he needs and ignoring the rest. Cheers, Ted -- R.E. (Ted) Byers, Ph.D., Ed.D. R & D Decision Support Solutions http://www.randddecisionsupportsolutions.com/ Healthy Living Through Informed Decision Making |
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