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The Encyclopedia of Life, Biodiversity Heritage Library, biodiversity informatics and beyond Web 2.0

Norton, Cathy N.
Citable URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1912/2391
As published: http://dx.doi.org/10.5210%2Ffm.v13i8.2226
Date: 2008-08-04
DOI: 10.5210%2Ffm.v13i8.2226

Abstract:

E.O. Wilson, the noted entomologist at Harvard, "wished" for an authoritative encyclopedia of life that would be freely available on the worldwide web for the entire world. On 9 May 2007, The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) was launched as a multi-institutional initiative whose mission is to create 1.8 million Web sites detailing all the known attributes, history, and behavior, about every known and described species and portraying that information through video, audio, and literature, via the Internet. A major contributor to the Encyclopedia is the Biodiversity Heritage Library that is currently scanning all the core biodiversity literature.

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© 2008 The Author. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. The definitive version was published in First Monday [online] 13 No. 8.

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