Free, online collaborative encyclopedia that documents species
Encyclopedia of Life
Type of site
Encyclopedia
Available in
19 languages
Malay German English Spanish French Galician Dutch Norsk bokmal Occitan Brazilian Portuguese Swedish Tagalog Macedonian Serbian Arabic Chinese(simplified and traditional) Korean Turkish
Created by
Field Museum Harvard University MacArthur Foundation Marine Biological Laboratory Missouri Botanical Garden Sloan Foundation Smithsonian Institution
URL
eol.org
Commercial
No
Registration
Optional
Launched
February 26, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-02-26)
Current status
Active
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a free, online encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It aggregates content to form "page"s for every known species. Content is compiled from existing trusted databases which are curated by experts and it calls on the assistance of non-experts throughout the world.[1][2] It includes video, sound, images, graphics, information on characteristics, as well as text.[3] In addition, the Encyclopedia incorporates species-related content from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which digitizes millions of pages of printed literature from the world's major natural history libraries. The BHL digital content is indexed with the names of organisms using taxonomic indexing software developed by the Global Names project. The EOL project was initially backed by a US$50 million funding commitment, led by the MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation, who provided US$20 million and US$5 million, respectively. The additional US$25 million came from five cornerstone institutions—the Field Museum, Harvard University, the Marine Biological Laboratory, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the Smithsonian Institution. The project was initially led by Jim Edwards[4] and the development team by David Patterson. Today, participating institutions and individual donors continue to support EOL through financial contributions.[citation needed]
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^"EOL History". EOL. Archived from the original on Dec 13, 2011. Retrieved 2012-03-23.
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