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=== [http://www.crocus.co.uk/findplant/ Crocus] ===
=== [http://www.crocus.co.uk/findplant/ Crocus] ===
Crocus is an plant catalog containing listings of plants available for purchase online. Many nusuries and garden centers now offer online purchasing possibilities. There are hundreds if not thousands of similar sites currently online, both big and small. Other examples are:
* [http://www.stokeseeds.com/cgi-bin/StokesSeeds.storefront Stokes Seeds]
* [http://www.gardenexpress.com.au/ Garden Express]
* [https://www.fernview.com.au/orderform.php Fernview]
* [http://www.diggingdog.com/pages2/catalog.php Digging dog nursery]


=== [http://www.paghat.com/garden.html Paghat's Garden] ===
=== [http://www.paghat.com/garden.html Paghat's Garden] ===

Revision as of 13:22, 24 March 2006

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.

Here are a few possible applications:

  • Collection of distributed plant information from the web into larger plant databases.
  • Plant catalogs can be published by retailers and the information about what can be bought where, can be easily aggregated.
  • Building up personal catalogs of plants, so I can have a customized view on my own plants that I grow, telling me more about them.

Participants

  • Mark Gibbons

Real-World Examples

Crocus

Crocus is an plant catalog containing listings of plants available for purchase online. Many nusuries and garden centers now offer online purchasing possibilities. There are hundreds if not thousands of similar sites currently online, both big and small. Other examples are:

Paghat's Garden

Dave's Garden

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 such as 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