Encyclopedia of Life creates a digital Noah's Ark | Science | guardian.co.uk
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
The OA Encyclopedia of Life now "pages for more than 150,000 species, with contributions from 250 specialists and 1,200 'citizen scientists....By 2017, the site aims to have collated information on all 1.8 million recorded species. To help the project push on towards this goal, the founding sponsors [MacArthur Foundation and Sloan Foundation] today announced a further $12.5 million in funding."