Encyclopedia of Life Blog

We’ve opened up another way for everyone to help build the Encyclopedia of Life.

You may have noticed we still need lots of pictures. You can now now share your best photos and videos of organisms with us by adding them to a Flickr group. For more details, see the description and instructions on the Encyclopedia of Life Images group page. Even if you don’t have your own images to share, you can help add “machine tags” with the species identifications to those that don’t yet have them — these will help us display them on the right pages.

This won’t be the only way to contribute, but many of us already love Flickr, and we hope others will want to give it a try.   The images should start showing up on the site later this year. There already are more than a thousand from the first few enthusiastic group members, including these striking examples (all are CC-licensed; photo credits to Jeff Whitlock, Sarsifer, Valter Jacinto).