[Taxacom] Species Pages - where are the online descriptions?

Roger Hyam rogerhyam at mac.com
Sun Feb 1 07:42:39 CST 2009


Ah I did of course mean EoL when I said CoL the second time. Hence the  
EoL links.

Apple orgies for any confusion.

Roger


On 1 Feb 2009, at 13:36, David Shorthouse wrote:

> Maybe we need a similarly informative thread on what is a species  
> page.
>
>> Catalogue of Life has a goal of producing a page for every species  
>> and
>>
>> it aims to do this by combining pre-existing data I believe but I
>> wonder where this data is.
>
> I seem to recall that there is an organization out there that is  
> already trying to do this. Can you point me to a press release,  
> grant proposal or white paper about this?
>
> Here are a few good places to start: http://www.eol.org/content/partners 
> , http://www.tdwg.org/biodiv-projects/projects-database/
>
> David P. Shorthouse
> Biodiversity Informatics Group
> Marine Biological Laboratory / Encyclopedia of Life
>
>
>





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