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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

The Encyclopedia of Life Goes Online

Today, the Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org) went online. The website is an ambitious project to composes a wiki-like database, edited by experts, with a web-page for every described species of organism on the planet. It was the brainchild of famed biologist E. O. Wilson and some serious cash is being spent on its construction.

At this point it appears that the bulk of the pages are for fish species, but they are going to constantly update, adding new groups of creatures.

So check it out. It's running a bit slow at the moment (probably since it just launched), but I think it looks promising.

Update: Looks like they took the database down to deal with the server issues for the time being.
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