Dr. Casey Hoy <http://oardc.osu.edu/phone_single.asp?id=314>, Kellogg Endowed Chair in Agricultural Ecosystem Management<http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/amp/default.asp> at The Ohio State University, among others developed an "Agroecosystem Health Index." Here's a link<http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=2102>to an excerpt about it from the Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development forum in 2009. While the index doesn't address the full import of your question, it does offer some possibilities. Certainly, Dr. Hoy would be a useful contact for more information. Also, there's some interesting work being done by Dr. Stuart Gage<http://www.ent.msu.edu/Directory/Facultypages/gage/tabid/141/Default.aspx>at Michigan State University on soundscape ecology <http://news.msu.edu/story/9029/&multi_media=3>, which analyzes recorded sounds <http://www.real.msu.edu/> within a given area to better understand the dynamics of the local ecology. Dr. Gage would also be a good resource for additional information. On Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:58:10 PM UTC-4, Dante-Gabryell Monson wrote:

Does anyone know of a tool to collaboratively *map synergies ​between plants+animals,* *and add various data on the plants and their synnergies,* at various levels ( top soil up till trees ) ?

ideally, a ( distributed ? ) internet based platform and software tool, to be used from a internet browser, with a open and free license on the data and software used, much like wikipedia.

When searching via google<https://www.google.be/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=sea&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&ei=VGRrT7HeCora8APjl5HRBg&ved=0CC4QBSgA&q=semantic+web+crowdsourced+permaculture+garden+design&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=ab95502c529bbd4a&ix=sea&ion=1&biw=1024&bih=605> , I find the following person, who has a similar approach, and attempts to converge interest for project development :

http://www.foodandtechconnect.​com/site/2011/04/20/​polyculturetech-part-i-the-​permaculture-information-web-​growing-guilds/<http://www.foodandtechconnect.com/site/2011/04/20/polyculturetech-part-i-the-permaculture-information-web-growing-guilds/>

excerpt :

*"what would a design tool for curating meaningful ecological relationships look like?*

*A decade ago, inspired by this question, I conceived of a web-based application for designing Permaculture guilds. I solicited a team of developers, secured funding, and began project managing the development of the application, which was dubbed (now embarrassingly) the Permaculture Information Web. And thus were planted the seeds of awesomeness. But in time, I meandered off to grad school, funding dried up, and the project has since been cryogenically frozen. That is, until there’s interest in unfreezing it.*

*In the interest of a potential resuscitation, here’s the vision.*

*My intention for the application is to enable gardeners and farmers, rural and urban, to design and grow Permaculture guilds. The interface of the application would be similar to those of concept-mapping tools, which allow users to explicitly define and interact with relationships between components. Although it’s not quite a design app, I’m thinking in terms of Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus <http://www.visualthesaurus.com/>, an online, interactive thesaurus. When word is entered, say network, it becomes orbited by its synonyms, which are closer or farther away from the original word based on how close or far away they are in meaning. When one of the synonyms is clicked, it too becomes orbited by its synonyms, and so on, enabling an exploration of language as a complex web of interrelated meanings."*

On Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:58:10 PM UTC-4, Dante-Gabryell Monson wrote:

Does anyone know of a tool to collaboratively *map synergies ​between plants+animals,* *and add various data on the plants and their synnergies,* at various levels ( top soil up till trees ) ?

ideally, a ( distributed ? ) internet based platform and software tool, to be used from a internet browser, with a open and free license on the data and software used, much like wikipedia.

When searching via google<https://www.google.be/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=sea&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&ei=VGRrT7HeCora8APjl5HRBg&ved=0CC4QBSgA&q=semantic+web+crowdsourced+permaculture+garden+design&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=ab95502c529bbd4a&ix=sea&ion=1&biw=1024&bih=605> , I find the following person, who has a similar approach, and attempts to converge interest for project development :

http://www.foodandtechconnect.​com/site/2011/04/20/​polyculturetech-part-i-the-​permaculture-information-web-​growing-guilds/<http://www.foodandtechconnect.com/site/2011/04/20/polyculturetech-part-i-the-permaculture-information-web-growing-guilds/>

excerpt :

*"what would a design tool for curating meaningful ecological relationships look like?*

*A decade ago, inspired by this question, I conceived of a web-based application for designing Permaculture guilds. I solicited a team of developers, secured funding, and began project managing the development of the application, which was dubbed (now embarrassingly) the Permaculture Information Web. And thus were planted the seeds of awesomeness. But in time, I meandered off to grad school, funding dried up, and the project has since been cryogenically frozen. That is, until there’s interest in unfreezing it.*

*In the interest of a potential resuscitation, here’s the vision.*

*My intention for the application is to enable gardeners and farmers, rural and urban, to design and grow Permaculture guilds. The interface of the application would be similar to those of concept-mapping tools, which allow users to explicitly define and interact with relationships between components. Although it’s not quite a design app, I’m thinking in terms of Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus <http://www.visualthesaurus.com/>, an online, interactive thesaurus. When word is entered, say network, it becomes orbited by its synonyms, which are closer or farther away from the original word based on how close or far away they are in meaning. When one of the synonyms is clicked, it too becomes orbited by its synonyms, and so on, enabling an exploration of language as a complex web of interrelated meanings."*

On Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:58:10 PM UTC-4, Dante-Gabryell Monson wrote:

Does anyone know of a tool to collaboratively *map synergies ​between plants+animals,* *and add various data on the plants and their synnergies,* at various levels ( top soil up till trees ) ?

ideally, a ( distributed ? ) internet based platform and software tool, to be used from a internet browser, with a open and free license on the data and software used, much like wikipedia.

When searching via google<https://www.google.be/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=sea&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&ei=VGRrT7HeCora8APjl5HRBg&ved=0CC4QBSgA&q=semantic+web+crowdsourced+permaculture+garden+design&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=ab95502c529bbd4a&ix=sea&ion=1&biw=1024&bih=605> , I find the following person, who has a similar approach, and attempts to converge interest for project development :

http://www.foodandtechconnect.​com/site/2011/04/20/​polyculturetech-part-i-the-​permaculture-information-web-​growing-guilds/<http://www.foodandtechconnect.com/site/2011/04/20/polyculturetech-part-i-the-permaculture-information-web-growing-guilds/>

excerpt :

*"what would a design tool for curating meaningful ecological relationships look like?*

*A decade ago, inspired by this question, I conceived of a web-based application for designing Permaculture guilds. I solicited a team of developers, secured funding, and began project managing the development of the application, which was dubbed (now embarrassingly) the Permaculture Information Web. And thus were planted the seeds of awesomeness. But in time, I meandered off to grad school, funding dried up, and the project has since been cryogenically frozen. That is, until there’s interest in unfreezing it.*

*In the interest of a potential resuscitation, here’s the vision.*

*My intention for the application is to enable gardeners and farmers, rural and urban, to design and grow Permaculture guilds. The interface of the application would be similar to those of concept-mapping tools, which allow users to explicitly define and interact with relationships between components. Although it’s not quite a design app, I’m thinking in terms of Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus <http://www.visualthesaurus.com/>, an online, interactive thesaurus. When word is entered, say network, it becomes orbited by its synonyms, which are closer or farther away from the original word based on how close or far away they are in meaning. When one of the synonyms is clicked, it too becomes orbited by its synonyms, and so on, enabling an exploration of language as a complex web of interrelated meanings."*

On Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:58:10 PM UTC-4, Dante-Gabryell Monson wrote:

Does anyone know of a tool to collaboratively *map synergies ​between plants+animals,* *and add various data on the plants and their synnergies,* at various levels ( top soil up till trees ) ?

ideally, a ( distributed ? ) internet based platform and software tool, to be used from a internet browser, with a open and free license on the data and software used, much like wikipedia.

When searching via google<https://www.google.be/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=sea&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&ei=VGRrT7HeCora8APjl5HRBg&ved=0CC4QBSgA&q=semantic+web+crowdsourced+permaculture+garden+design&spell=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=ab95502c529bbd4a&ix=sea&ion=1&biw=1024&bih=605> , I find the following person, who has a similar approach, and attempts to converge interest for project development :

http://www.foodandtechconnect.​com/site/2011/04/20/​polyculturetech-part-i-the-​permaculture-information-web-​growing-guilds/<http://www.foodandtechconnect.com/site/2011/04/20/polyculturetech-part-i-the-permaculture-information-web-growing-guilds/>

excerpt :

*"what would a design tool for curating meaningful ecological relationships look like?*

*A decade ago, inspired by this question, I conceived of a web-based application for designing Permaculture guilds. I solicited a team of developers, secured funding, and began project managing the development of the application, which was dubbed (now embarrassingly) the Permaculture Information Web. And thus were planted the seeds of awesomeness. But in time, I meandered off to grad school, funding dried up, and the project has since been cryogenically frozen. That is, until there’s interest in unfreezing it.*

*In the interest of a potential resuscitation, here’s the vision.*

*My intention for the application is to enable gardeners and farmers, rural and urban, to design and grow Permaculture guilds. The interface of the application would be similar to those of concept-mapping tools, which allow users to explicitly define and interact with relationships between components. Although it’s not quite a design app, I’m thinking in terms of Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus <http://www.visualthesaurus.com/>, an online, interactive thesaurus. When word is entered, say network, it becomes orbited by its synonyms, which are closer or farther away from the original word based on how close or far away they are in meaning. When one of the synonyms is clicked, it too becomes orbited by its synonyms, and so on, enabling an exploration of language as a complex web of interrelated meanings."*