On 22/09/06, Tony Jacobs gtjacobs@hotmail.com wrote:
From: "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com
On 22/09/06, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
after being announced several times, the "Encyclopedia of Earth" (EoE) has surfaced at http://www.eoearth.org/. It is published by the Digital Universe Foundation and it is part of the Earthportal project. It currently consists of 363 articles (according to the "All Articles" list at http://www.eoearth.org/articles).
And it's open content, too (cc-by-sa). A thousand flowers are blooming.
Is it a WP:Reliable Source as well? Reading their about page - http://www.eoearth.org/eoe/about - it seems trustworthy...
It's a tertiary source, like any encyclopedia should be. Most (all?) of their actual content so far is repackaged material from NIST, which I presume would be US government Public Domain. I'd call that a reasonable source cited properly.
- d.