Repository details
Encyclopedia of Life
Name of repository
Encyclopedia of Life
Additional name(s)
- eol
- Global access to knowledge about life on earth
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Description
Our knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria - is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere. Imagine what it would mean if this information could be gathered together and made available to everyone – anywhere – at a moment’s notice. This dream is becoming a reality through the Encyclopedia of Life.
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Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository size
21.289.852 trait and attribute records, including 2,511,024 ecological interaction records
Repository type(s)
- disciplinary
- institutional
Mission statement for designated community
Research data repository language(s)
- Chinese
- French
- Twi
- Finnish
- Portuguese
- English
Data and/or service provider
- dataProvider
- serviceProvider
Institutions (7)
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
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Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
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Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
- general
- technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2008
Additional name(s)
- MBL
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
- general
- technical
Type of institution
non-profit
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- funding
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non-profit
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- funding
- general
- technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Policies (3)
Database access
Type of access to research data repository
open
Database licenses (1)
Database License
Data access (1)
Type of access to data
open
Data licenses (2)
Data upload (1)
Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
- other
Persistent identifier system(s)
- none
Name of the repository software
- MySQL
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
yes
Application programming interfaces (1)
Remarks
Remarks
The Encyclopedia of Life is an international initiative. The following institutions have signed memoranda of understanding to become part of the global EOL community: https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol
The Biodiversity Synthesis Group is part of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), an international project to develop a webpage for every known species on Earth, freely accessible to all. Based at the Biodiversity Synthesis Center (BioSynC) at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, we are dedicated to advancing biodiversity science and the core EOL mission through our diverse meetings, workshops, research programs, and outreach. The other four EOL components are: The Biodiversity Informatics Group (Field Museum); the Scanning and Digitization Group (led by the Biodiversity Heritage Library); the Learning and Education Group (Harvard); the Species Pages Group (Smithsonian).
TraitBank® is a searchable, comprehensive, open digital repository for organism traits, measurements, interactions and other facts for all taxa across the tree of life. TraitBank is integrated into the fabric of EOL, and leverages its existing infrastructure for names, content organization, curation roles and search. Data records are aggregated from databases, literature tables, and other sources.
Entry date
2013-03-20
Last update
2024-04-02
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