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...group of academic and non-profit institutions—including Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the MacArthur Foundation—will announce the launch of a major online peer-reviewed database of species today. The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), a project long supported by Harvard’s Pellegrino University Professor Edward O. Wilson, aims to compile information on over 1.8 million species and make it universally accessible free of charge, according to Laura Cinnamon, a spokeswoman for the project. Harvard has already promised over $5 million, which will go towards education, outreach, and the creation of a digital...
...press release from the EOL estimates a completion time of 10 years...
...EOL Web site lists the Wikimedia Foundation as a member of its "Institutional Council" and cites Wikimedia's open-source portals as inspiration for the project...
...Wikipedia… gave us confidence that our tasks are manageable with current technology and social behaviour," the EOL Web site reads...
...press release notes a $10 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and $2.5 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the draft description estimates EOL's five-year operating budget at $40 million...