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...
( 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...
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...
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 [...]
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 [...]
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...
A project of the Encyclopedia of Life, the “e-Biosphere 09 International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics,” will take place in London 1-3 June 2009. It will include talks about contemporary achievements in Biodiversity Informatics, as well as discussions about what the future for biodiversity informatics holds. One of the interesting features is the Online Conference Community: [...]...
Guess who is the Encyclopedia of Life's biodiversity of the week ?? The cuttlefish!! Diver: "awww wookit da purdy wittle squidy!" Cuttlefish: "Who you calling a squid punk? Why you backing off? I thought you might want to "cuttle" a bit... thats what I thought..." Hat tip to Michael Barton, FCD . Read the comments on this post...
The beautiful film that helped launch the Encyclopedia of Life has been nominated for a 2008 Webby Award. Created by Avenue A | Razorfish, the film is just one outcome of E.O. Wilson's 2007 TED Prize wish: to "help create...
This is one of the most fascinating posts I’ve read this year so far. It's the story behind The Encyclopedia of Life. It has it all: An ambitious idea way ahead of its time; an eight year story from idea through to conception; a fascinating mix of world-wide collaboration, physical devices (a handheld species identifier if [...]
There is a new website, Encyclopedia of Life . It is an online resource that aims "to document all species of life on Earth." One featured species is Pissodes strobi (Peck), the White pine weevil. The site currently contains: About 25 exemplar species pages . These pages show the kind of rich environment, with extensive information, to which all the species pages will eventually grow. These...
From the site: "Welcome to the first release of the Encyclopedia of Life portal. This is the very beginning of our exciting journey to document all species of life on Earth. Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, the Encyclopedia of Life...
One of the most fascinating websites I've discovered as of late is The Encyclopedia of Life . The Encyclopedia of Life is the brainchild of Paddy Patterson at Woods Hole, MA. The object is simple; bring the diversity of life on the planet to everyone. Do I need to explain what a gold mine this is to a research fanatic? One of the regions I explore in my free time (LOL!) is the limitations to human...
I love information. So how’s this? The Encyclopedia of life. Every species in the world, to be eventually catalogued and described in a glossy free online encyclopedia, funded to the tune of millions. Nature reviews the resource, and are pretty impressed. (updated with an exemplar species, Sepia apama Gray 1849.) Andrew Bolt has savaged me for attributing comments from [...]
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