Green | February 26, 2008 | 6 comments

Encyclopedia of Life unveiled

source: http://www.eol.org/

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"The first 30,000 pages have been unveiled of a vast encyclopedia which aims to catalogue every one of our planet's 1.8 million species. The immense online resource is designed to greatly enhance our understanding of the world's diminishing biodiversity."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7263134.stm

Wow a catalogue of every living thing on the earth, even viruses. What a ambitious and fascinating project. Its director Dr James Edwards said that it plans to use a similar approach to Google News, "pooling" information from different sources. Apparently the resource would take 100 years to compile from scratch.
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6 comments // Encyclopedia of Life unveiled

  • jonnat17
  • JordanRoth
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      JordanRoth  

    • I'm sorry, I thought Wikipedia already existed.

      Just kidding. Not really though.

      Seriously though...This better be a free and open source enterprise.

      "we have witnessed the impact that a website like Wikipedia can have on humanity, providing a common location for information on all things great and small. Encyclopedia of Life has the potential to be a similar phenomenon, serving as a catalog, database, and learning tool about every organism that has ever lived on the planet. In the same way that dictionaries help literacy, the Encyclopedia can help biodiversity literacy. "

    • 3 years ago
  • Mobius2012
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  • abbym0308
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    • Take a look at E.O. Wilson's acceptance of the TED Prize in which he makes a wish to help build this encyclopedia of life. "Wilson identifies five grave threats to biodiversity (a term he coined), using the acronym HIPPO, and makes his TED wish: that we will work together on the Encyclopedia of Life, a web-based compendium of data from scientists and amateurs on every aspect of the biosphere."

    • 3 years ago
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