Hi Friends!
Our
knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists
and bacteria - is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases,
websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere. Imagine
what it would mean if this information could be gathered together and made
available to everyone – anywhere – at a moment’s notice.
Link: http://eol.org/ This dream is becoming a reality through the Encyclopedia of Life.
Our
Vision: Global access to knowledge about life on Earth.
Our
Mission: To increase awareness and understanding of living nature through an
Encyclopedia of Life that gathers, generates, and shares knowledge in an open,
freely accessible and trusted digital resource.
EOL
is supported by the following institutions:
- Atlas of Living Australia
- La Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)
- Harvard University
- Marine Biological Laboratory
- New Library of Alexandria
- Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
EOL
collaborates with the following global bioinformatics projects:
- Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
- Barcode of Life (BOLD)
- Catalogue of Life (COL)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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