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Some schools may have banned the use of Wikipedia as a research aid for projects, but educators are sure to give their blessing to a new online information source. Biological scientific communities from around the world have joined in an international effort to create an online encyclopedia of the 1.8 million known species of life on Earth.
The Encyclopedia of Life project will be
initially funded by a US$10 million grant from the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and UD$2.5 million from the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation and will involve some of the world's leading
biosciences organizations.
The Field Museum, Harvard University, Marine Biological Laboratory
(Woods Hole), Smithsonian Institution, and Biodiversity Heritage
Library joined together to initiate the project, bringing together
species and software experts from across the world. The Missouri
Botanical Garden has become a full partner, and discussions are taking
place this week with leaders of the new Australian Government funded
Atlas of Living Australia project.
Over the next 10 years, the Encyclopedia of Life will create Internet
pages for all 1.8 million species currently named, as well as
attempting to classify and catalog millions of species yet to be
discovered.
The web site,at www.eol.org, will provide written information, as well
as multimedia information including photographs, video, sound and
location maps. The Encyclopedia will be a moderated wiki-style
environment, freely available to all users everywhere, according to the
project organizers.
"The Encyclopedia of Life will provide valuable biodiversity and
conservation information to anyone, anywhere, at any time," said Dr
James Edwards, currently Executive Secretary of the Global Biodiversity
Information Facility who today was officially named Executive Director
of the Encyclopedia of Life.
"Through collaboration, we all can increase our appreciation of the
immense variety of life, the challenges to it, and ways to conserve
biodiversity. The Encyclopedia of Life will ultimately make
high-quality, well-organized information available on an unprecedented
level. Even five years ago, we could not create such a resource, but
advances in technology for searching, annotating, and visualizing
information now permit us, indeed mandate us to build the Encyclopedia
of Life."
David Bass
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