[Terrapreta] Charcoal Specification Development

[code suidae]

Here is first pass at a class model that describes the relationship
between the various entities as I currently understand them.

I tried to keep things simple by including an experiment log where
most of the procedural details would be kept. This allows users to
keep as little or as much data as they want without cluttering up the
model with rarely-used properties. The same goes for the soil and char
analysis parts; rather than try to think of all the possible
characteristics that someone might want to collect data for, I've
modeled it as a list of name-value pairs, with a free-form text field
so that the user can provide details about the measurement.

It didn't seem useful to parallel the PyrolysisMethod-PyrolysisEvent
relationship on the cultivation side. Maybe I'm wrong about that?
Would a generic 'method' of cultivation experiment make sense? It
would help to standardize testing, but I'm not sure if it would end up
being used in the same way unless it were pretty general, like 'small
pots' 'large pots', '25 sqft plot', etc.

http://www.codesuidae.net/misc/BioCharModel.zargo

Anyway, take a look and let me know what you think.

Dave K

On 9/29/07, ch braun <brauncch at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I looked for an UML modeling tool which could be suitable for our
> purpose, and the best solution I tried is ArgoUML:
> http://argouml.tigris.org/

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