The Encyclopedia of Life
May 9th, 2007An interesting project has begun to catalog every known species, Wikipedia style. That is, each species gets its own web page, with photos, video and sound recordings, and locator maps when possible, and is subject to the same public editing process practices on Wikipedia.
I wonder if someone will eventually add the DNA sequence of each species…
Update, 5/9/07: A video showing what the encyclopedia of life will look like can be found here: http://www.eol.org/home.html
May 11th, 2007 at 10:17 am
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.