the folks at wiki has started on a similar project (there's unsurprisingly aThe Encyclopaedia of Life http://www.eol.org/ looks like it could be
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.
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