[Pil-pc-oceania] Encyclopedia of Life is Up

[Adrian Wedd]

FYI, the Encyclopedia of Life is up and running:
www.eol.org<http://cmpgnr.com/r.html?c=1172762&r=1171711&t=1294952620&l=1&d=89331388&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eeol%2eorg&g=0&f=-1>

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 is an ecosystem of websites that makes all key
information about all life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the
world. Our goals are to:

   - Create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the
   Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike.
   - Transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of
   scientists, by aggregating virtually all known data about every living
   species.
   - Engage a wide audience of schoolchildren, educators, citizen
   scientists, academics and those who are just curious about Earth's species.
   - Increase our collective understanding of life on Earth, and
   safeguard the richest possible spectrum of biodiversity.

*In this first version of the portal, you will find:*

   - About 25 *exemplar species pages<http://www.eol.org/content/exemplars>
   *. These pages show the kind of rich environment, with extensive
   information, to which all the species pages will eventually grow. These
   pages have been authenticated (endorsed) scientists.
   - Tens of thousands of *additional species pages*. These pages are
   authenticated, but do not contain the rich array of information found on the
   exemplar pages.
   - About 1 million *minimal species pages* contain the scientific and
   common names for a species and often have a distribution map, but lack other
   authenticated information.

A.

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From: Encyclopedia of Life Secretariat <secretariat at eol.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:15 AM
Subject: Encyclopedia of Life
To: adrian at adrianwedd.com


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:

Click here to read the
newsletter.<http://cmpgnr.com/r.html?c=1172762&r=1171711&t=1294952620&l=1&d=89331389&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eeol%2eorg%2fcontent%2fpage%2fnewsletter&g=0&f=-1>

You can see the new pages at
www.eol.org<http://cmpgnr.com/r.html?c=1172762&r=1171711&t=1294952620&l=1&d=89331388&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eeol%2eorg&g=0&f=-1>.
We also invite you to take the survey at the site so you can help us
improve.

We thank you for your interest and support over the past year. Enjoy.
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