On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Andrew Gray wrote:
Remember Encyclopedia of Life? They've just gone partially, er, live:
25 reviewed "example" pages showing the level they intend to reach for every species; about 10,000 partial pages, and a million or so "minimal species pages" (basically a substub placeholder). They have funding and backing - it seems pretty likely they'll succeed.
Licensing is a bit of a mismash - some CC-BY, some NC, etc. All labelled, at a quick glance.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7263134.stm - BBC News story.
The occurence maps are very interesting. But not labelled :-(
Some of their articles link back to Wikipedia, even with the default "show authoritative sources only" preferences setting...
I created {{eol}} to link back to them.
Magnus