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Physorg (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
(PhysOrg.com) -- One hundred and fifty thousand species down, 1.65 million to go. That is the tally for the online Encyclopedia of Life, an ambitious two-year-old project with the goal of nothing less than documenting in one place all of the 1.8 million known living species on Earth and making the information available to everyone with Internet access.
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
The Encyclopedia of Life's inventory of Earth's species -- now 150,000 pages of vetted information, en route to 1.8 million (one page for each known species) -- is shedding light on everything from conservation strategies for endangered species to climate change. It will also help slow the global spread of disease-bearing or invasive pests. Scientists are also outfitting EOL with tags to help scour...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - The Encyclopedia of Life , an online project launched in 2007 with the aim of creating a webpage on every known animal and plant species, has reached 150,000 entries in its second year. In a statement marking the anniversary, the collaborative project said close to two million people from more than 200 countries had contributed to the website. Users can create a...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
The Encyclopedia of Life, an online project launched in 2007 with the aim of creating a webpage on every known animal and plant species, has reached 150,000 entries in its second year.
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
From the Article: The inventory has grown more quickly than anyone expected. To date, there are pages for more than 150,000 species, with contributions from 250 specialists and 1,200 “citizen scientists”. Members of the public have contributed more than 30,000 images via the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) group page on the photo-sharing website Flickr. Once the identity [...]
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
( Encyclopedia of Life ) EOL's inventory of Earth's species -- now 150,000 pages of vetted information, en route to 1.8 million, is shedding light on everything from conservation strategies for endangered species to human longevity and climate change. It will also help slow the spread of disease-bearing or invasive pests.
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Id (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
WorldChanging Team: The EoL is an emerging online reference and research tool, which aims to compile existing databases and efforts, mix their data with other content gathered...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
From the Blog Post: A complete list of all the species on the planet is, for many biologists and conservationists, the natural history equivalent of the Holy Grail. So the recently-launched EoL (it stands for ‘Encyclopedia of Life’), which aims to create not just a list, but an individual web-page, for every single one of the [...]
Living the Scientific Life (Scienti (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
tags: biodiversity , conservation , endangered species , Encyclopedia of Life , TEDTalks , E.O. Wilson , streaming video As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TEDTalks Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere -- and build a networked encyclopedia of all the world's knowledge about life [24:22] Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Scientists are compiling an Internet-based observatory of life on earth as a guide to everything from the impact of climate change on wildlife to pests that can damage crops, Reuters reported.James Edwards, head of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) based at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, said the 10-year project hopes to have millions of people providing data in the long term.With the help...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
( Encyclopedia of Life ) An online information system for life on Earth, now under construction, will take its place alongside the world meteorology data network that pools information to predict the weather.A virtual observatory for the unprecedented study and monitoring of life in an integrative way is the ambition of some 400 biology and technology experts from 50 countries convening for the e-Biosphere...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 04/29/2009
E.O. Wilson, the towering naturalist and Pulitzer-prize winning writer, hatched the idea for the Encyclopedia of Life in 2003 as a way of chronicling all of the world's species, Wikipedia-style. "How can you save things you don't even know a...
Next Generation Science (Free subscription) | 04/28/2009
Every year at the TED conference, a forum is provided for some of the country’s leading minds to present their “dream” for a chance to win the acclaimed TED Prize. In March 2007, eminent biologist E.O. Wilson proposed a collaborative web-based initiative that would leverage the Internet and its users to bring all the living [...]
Steve Dale online (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
These are my links for April 5th through April 7th: monitter : real time, live twitter monitor | free live twitter embed widget - Simple. It's a twitter monitor, it lets you "monitter" the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying. Cool huh? Encyclopedia of Life - The Encyclopedia of Life [...]
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 03/21/2009
Title# of times tagged as 'science' Science Daily: News & Articles in Science, Health, Environment & Technology 3032 Encyclopedia of Life 2731 Edge 2660 TED: Ideas worth spreading 2477 LiveScience.com 2473 New Scientist - International News, Ideas, Innovation 2317 Science and technology information from Scientific American 2291 Seed: Science is Culture 2176 Science Toys 2017 National Geographic...
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