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  • From: Rich Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Scientists work on Encyclopedia of Life
  • Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 23:47:07 +0100

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
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.



The Encyclopaedia of Life http://www.eol.org/ looks like it could be
very interesting, only a few demo pages at the moment. I don't know what
licence they are going to publish under. Whether this has content really
required for permaculture remains to be seen.

Wiki-species is limited in scope, focussing purely on the taxomatic side
of things, it been arond for a few years now. The main wikipedia does
have quite a lot of content on plants, again not really focussing on the
growing side of things. Both are published under the GNU Free
Documentation License.

I'm begining to put together a directory of website with good plant info
at the embryonic permaculture.info wiki at
http://www.permaculture.info/index.php/Directory
fell free to add/edit.

Rich
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