[WikiEN-l] Encyclopedia of Life

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Sounds like Wikispecies....

On 5/8/07, Keith Old <keithold at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> Associated Press is reporting on plans to establish an Encyclopedia of
> Life
> combining what is known about every known living species.
>
> http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/05/08/ap3699046.html
>
> 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 institutions. The
> project
> will take about 10 years to finish.
>
> "It's an interactive zoo," said James Edwards, who will be the
> encyclopedia's executive director. Edwards currently helps run a global
> biodiversity information system.
>
> If the new encyclopedia progresses as planned, it should fill about 300
> million pages, which, if lined up end-to-end, would be more than 52,000
> miles long, able to stretch twice around the world at the equator.
>
> Two foundations have given $12.5 million to pay for the first 2 1/2 years
> of
> the massive effort, but it will be free and accessible to everyone.
> More in story.
>
> I wonder what its licensing arrangements are or will be.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Keith Old
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