Encyclopedia of Life
Monday, May 14, 2007
I'm a little late reporting on this, so you may have already seen it.
Leading scientific institutions have launched a new project to catalog an Encyclopedia of Life online. The project is ambitious, but the results will be spectacular if they pull it off.
(via many blogs)
Monday, May 14, 2007 at 12:25:00 PM CDT
How are they going to handle all of the beetles?
I'm sure it's just another mega-fauna chauvinistic page ;-)
Monday, May 14, 2007 at 1:25:00 PM CDT
I think it's likely to start out that way, but I hope in the long run it covers everything, even microscopic organisms. That would be really cool.
We're getting to the point in technology where it should be feasible if there was a team assigned to keep it all up. The historical information will be fascinating to look at in 50 years.