Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Research database?

[Tree Bressen (tree]

Hi Anthea,

> We have been doing a lot of research on cohousing communities, organic 
> gardening, permaculture, hybrid housing, etc., towards developing one or 
> more coho communities. Has anyone got a simple solution for organizing 
> that kind of research on computer? Ideally, we need to be able to pull 
> together scattered references to a variety of topics we've got notes on. 
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
>   Anthea

You could try asking the folks at the nonprofit Grass Commons 
http://grasscommons.org/ (email 
<mailto:info [at] grasscommons.org>info [at] grasscommons.org).  It's the kind of 
thing that the software they are developing might be either suitable for or 
that they would know who does have software for the kind of application you 
are describing.  It sounds like you need something based on tagging, but 
i'm not tech savvy enough to know the specifics.

(And no offense to Ken, but Wikipedia is not the right host for what you 
are doing.  Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.  The articles are appropriately 
focused on that usage, which requires them to be short, thoughtful, and 
comprehensive.  If everyone used Wikipedia to store their personal 
database, the resource would quickly become nearly useless.)

Cheers,

--Tree



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