May 2012
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EOL Computable Data Challenge Deadline Extended to...
Good news everyone: the EOL Computable Data Challenge deadline for entries has been extended to Thursday, May 31, 2012. We invite ideas for scientific research projects that use Encyclopedia of Life http://www.eol.org, including the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL, http://biodiversitylibrary.org), to answer questions in biology. EOL and BHL have assembled text and multimedia about more than a...
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News: Biodiversity art show opening at Chicago's...
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, May 21, 2012 - “Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention,” a new traveling contemporary art exhibition, opens at Chicago’s Field Museum May 22. Harnessing technology and inspired by nature’s amazing design concepts, the show’s innovative, eye-capturing art helps visitors understand and appreciate the life-or-death interdependence between the 10-20 million species on...
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New One Species at a Time Podacst: Tulips
When you think of the tools of the modern geneticist, the lowly razor blade probably doesn’t come to mind. But this low-tech tool is essential to the work of Dutch geneticist (and passionate gardener) Ben Zonneveld. He users razor blands (and other tools) to unlock the genetic secrets of the flower whose spectacular genetic variation caused “tulip mania” in the 1600s - secrets that continue to...
News: EOL empowers curators to set preferred...
This morning, we released an exciting new tool on EOL that lets full curators set the preferred classification for a given EOL taxon page. This new feature was motivated by a number of challenges we faced bringing together data from so any different sources:
1) Sources differ on which name to use for a given organism
2) Some systems of classifying organisms are generally recognized as more...
Encyclopedia of Life reaches historic "one million...
Washington, DC - May 9, 2012 - The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has surged past one million pages of content with the addition of hundreds of thousands of new images and specimen data from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH).
Read the full release on EOL.org.
Anolis marcanoi Now Live On The Encyclopedia of... →
A marvelous article by Martha Muñoz describing her work to document an entire clade of anoles on EOL. Now I just need to convince her to write an article or two for the Anolis page!
