EOL is live!
I’ve just received the following email announcing that the Encyclopedia Of Life has finally gone live with the first 30,000 pages:
The new Encyclopedia of Life portal has gone live with more than one million species pages!
In celebration of this big event, our first EOL newsletter is available at:http://www.eol.org/content/page/newsletter.
You can see the new pages at http://www.eol.org. We also invite you to take the survey at the site so you can help us improve.
Unfortunately I’ve been unable to get on it due to the sheer volume of people who must be hitting it right now.
The EOL aims to catalogue the 1.8 million known species and is an open collaboration that’s expected to take 10 years or so. Take a look at EO Wilson’s talk that started it all off:
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Thanks for the link – site looks fantastic – will be great for teaching. Searched for Monarch Butterfly though with no luck
. Of course it will take time to get a full list (which of course is always changing) and to have various common names known too. Super and mind blowing how many different species there are.
Heh, that’s exactly what I searched for first. Yes, it’s going to be an incredibly useful source of information and, from what I hear, it’ll be more authoritative than the likes of Wikipedia due to the fact that all information is vetted before being made public. I’d love to be able to contribute one day.
It’s amazing that there are 1,800,000 known species and that there could be another 100,000,000 (depending on who’s guessing) left to discover!