Biologist E. O. Wilson described this year at the TED conference his dream to create the Encylopedia of Life (EOL). This Encyclopedia will describe all 1.8 million species living on earth by including descriptions, pictures, videos, research papers and maps for every known and newly detected species on our planet. The open-source database will be created in a collaborative approach and will be accessible freely like Wikipedia.
The EOL website has been launched this week and will go live next year. Avenue A-Razorfish provided, by a pro bono job, the visualisation and design of EOL website and Ray Ratelis owned eol.org, a valuable web address which he freely contributed to the project. The website currently contains a great introduction video, explaining the purpose and vision behind the Encyclopedia, and screen shots of some demonstration pages.
Looking at the demonstration page you can see samples of the upcoming content. You can move the mouse cursor over the website image and a description of the presentation idea is shown. I really like the vision of EOL website and their extraordinary way to present and structure the information to particular species!
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