In the agricultural sector there exist already many well-established and authoritative controlled vocabularies, such as FAO's AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus, the CAB Thesaurus, and AgNIC, the thesaurus of the National Agricultural Library in the United States. However, for these semantic tools to be entirely effective on the Internet, there is a need to re-assess the traditional "thesaurus" approach and move towards a more modern technique that better suits the Web environment, such as the development of "ontologies". Ontology is a new concept that is emerging from the various Semantic Web initiatives, which roughly speaking can be defined as a semantic system that contains terms, the definitions of those terms, and the specification of relationships among those terms. Such a semantic system can be referred to as an "Ontology Service".
Rock Garden Plants Database 3.0 contains 13802 species and 887 photos. For each plant you will find here known synonyms of its name, short description, territory and altitude of its natural location, size, color, bloom, if it is calciphile (Ca+) or calciphobe (Ca-), its type (rosette etc.), cultivation and propagation.
This english version was translated from original database written in Czech language
Мир домашних растений — справочник для любителей комнатных растений, содержащий более 200 видов. Статьи, советы и рекомендации по разведению и уходу. Использование растений в интерьере.