permaculture

[Rich Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

> 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.
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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