Encyclopedia of Life Blog

Ken-ichi Ueda told me about iNaturalist.org, a wonderful site he, Nathan Agrin, and Jessica Kline have created for their Masters at UC Berkeley’s School of Information. To quote from the web site:

iNaturalist.org is a place where you can record what you see in nature, meet other nature lovers, and learn about the natural world.

It looks gorgeous (lots of Flickr Creative Commons photos), use of Wikipedia, and the TimeMap Javascript library.

Arguably the species pages are clearer than EOL’s (compare Anolis carolinensis on iNaturalist and EOL).But what makes it especially cool is the way it engages users with the ability to add observations of organisms, and request identifications. I like the emphasis on being

…a fun and efficient way to record, find, and share nature observations.

I think its a great project that could provide useful ideas for the design of EOL’s pages.

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