permaculture

["Adrian Wedd" <adrian@adrianwedd.com>]

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:
> <
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/encyclopedia_of_life;_ylt=Ag6ELYpjFHLJoo75GsTmpuFhr7sF
> >
> 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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