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  • From: "Adrian Wedd" <adrian@adrianwedd.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Scientists work on Encyclopedia of Life - Yahoo! News
  • Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 21:01:40 +1000

the folks at wiki has started on a similar project (there's unsurprisingly a
number of similar projects happening) which i was checking out the other
day.

http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

A.


On 5/9/07, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <lfl@intrex.net> wrote:


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/encyclopedia_of_life;_ylt=Ag6ELYpjFHLJoo75GsTmpuFhr7sF
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AP Scientists work on Encyclopedia of Life
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Tue May 8, 9:39 PM ET

WASHINGTON - In a whale-sized project, the world's scientists plan to
compile everything they know about all of Earth's
1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to
everyone.

The effort, called the Encyclopedia of Life, will include species
descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings
by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and scientific journal papers.
Its first pages of information will be shown
Wednesday in Washington where the massive effort is being announced by
some of the world's leading scientific
institutions and universities. The project will take about 10 years to
complete.



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