[P2P-F] crowd sourced permaculture tools and database ?

Sun Mar 25 16:19:40 CEST 2012

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."*
>  
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