Encyclopedia of Life = http://www.eol.org/

| Earth's Species To Be Cataloged On the Web
| from the can-you-spell-noah's-ark dept.
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 08, @23:49 (Education)
| http://science.slashdot.org/article....7/05/08/226230

[0]Matt clues us in to a project to compile [1]everything known about
all of Earth's 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site,
open to the world. The effort is called the [2]Encyclopedia of Life. It will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings
by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and scientific journal papers.
The site was unveiled today in Washington where the massive effort was
announced by some of the world's leading institutions. The project is
expected to take about 10 years to complete; it starts out with
committed funding for 1/4 of that."

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Links:
0. http://www.emeraldcoast.com/
1. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-wls050507.php
2. http://www.eol.org/

great idea