plant-examples

Plants Examples

Proposing a microformat to describe a particular plant, classified by its latin name. Plants all have common attributes associated with them related to appearance, growing conditions, disease, pests, maintenance etc. Many websites publish information about plants, but as yet this information is not open to exchange and aggregation.

The Problem

To collect information on the current status of plant related information on the web. This information may then form the basis of a microformat proposal.

Participants

• Mark Gibbons

Existing Practices

• Botanical names are often used as the title. More on botanical names here.
• Common attributes are readily identifiable. Such as
  • water requirements
  • light requirements
  • temperature requirements
  • plant type (tree, shrub, perrenial)
  • soil requirements
• Some of the above attributes have been standardized already(temperature requirements, others vary more, but have common features.
• Plant appearance is often described as free text.
• Images are often associated with plants.
• Other attempts to solve The Problem

Proposal

• Early drafts
• Link to related pages as they become available
  • -brainstorming
  • - proposal
  • -microformat

See Also

• Other microformats
• Normative references for tags used