‘Encyclopedia of Life’ To Catalogue Species
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A group of the world’s leading scientists announced yesterday that they had joined forces to document the world’s 1.8 million named species in a massive new “Encyclopedia of Life.”
The unprecedented $12.5 million effort — a collaboration of Chicago’s Field Museum, Harvard University, the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., the Smithsonian Institution, the Biodiversity Heritage Library and the Missouri Botanical Garden — aims to create separate Web pages on every known species within a decade.
Read full article (Washington Post, May 9, 2007)
EOL website
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mei 9th, 2007 at 11:00 am
This is truly fascinating, such institutions incorporating properties like wiki-editing, multimedia and mapping. Another example of science and arts insourcing Flickr, Wikipedia and Google Maps.
mei 11th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
The news about the EOL is terribly exciting. It will an extraordinary addition to the EarthPortal Encyclopedia of Earth (http://www.eoearth.org/) in which 700 scientists have contributed over 3000 articles over the past 18 months.
They’ve added the 800+ Ecoregions profiles of endangered species from the World Wildlife Fund.
Very cool.