Hi everyone. I did a small search on the forums to see if this was already posted but it has not, so I'm taking the opportunity now to raise some awareness about a fairly new website that's come out. A dream come true for E.O. Wilson, who's the mind behind the project.
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.8 million species of living organisms known to science. The EOL went live on February 26, 2008 with 30,000 entries.[1] The site immediately proved to be extremely popular, and temporarily had to revert to demonstration pages for two days when it was overrun by traffic from over 11 million views it received. It is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world. It aims to build one "infinitely expandable" page for each species, including video, sound, images, graphics, as well as text. In addition, the Encyclopedia will incorporate the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which will contain the digitized print collections from the world's major natural history libraries. The project is initially backed by a $50m funding commitment, led by the MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation.
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