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 Stories About: biodiversity AND websites
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At this rate, extinctions may be outpacing postings
Encyclopedia of Life up, but empty |
biodiversivist |
04 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| A tip from Canis sent me to the Encyclopedia of Life, which came online last week. I posted on this project about nine months ago. I was skeptical that it would amount to much back then, so I was curious to see if I had missed the mark (as usual). I typed in a bunch of species and found nothing but placeholders for them. The site is still an empty shell, about 99.999 percent short of its goal. They have the categories in place, ready for armies of professional, hand-s ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, websites (all these topics) |
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Wikipedia rules
Encyclopedia of Life off to a slow start |
biodiversivist |
13 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| A couple of emails and an article in the latest issue of Science have roused me to post on the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) website. The site is not functional yet but has a whiz-bang demo (completely fake) put together by a company called AvenueA|Razorfish that is well worth checking out. However, that was the only thing that impressed me about the site. The article in Science just inflamed my skepticism:Hands up if you've heard this before: An ambitious new project p ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, websites, wildlife (all these topics) |
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