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Encyclopedia of Life is a website. 

Website address of of Encyclopedia of Life is eol dot org

Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a free, online collaborative 

encyclopedia.

Encyclopedia of Life is intended to document all of the 1.8 million 

species of living organisms known to science. 

Encyclopedia of Life went live on February 26, 2008 with 30,000 entries.

Encyclopedia of Life immediately proved to be extremely popular. 

Encyclopedia of Life temporarily had to revert to demonstration pages for two days 

when it was overrun by traffic from over 11 million views it received.

Encyclopedia of Life is compiled from existing databases and from contributions 

by experts and non-experts throughout the world.

Encyclopedia of Life aims to build one "nfinitely expandable page for each species, 

including video, sound, images, graphics, as well as text.

Encyclopedia of Life will incorporate the Biodiversity Heritage Library. 

Encyclopedia of Life 's this library will contain the digitized print collections 

from the world's major natural history libraries. 

Encyclopedia of Life is initially backed by a $50 million funding commitment. 

Encyclopedia of Life fund is led by the MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation.

Encyclopedia of Life steering committee has senior officers from Biodiversity Heritage 

Library consortium, Field Museum, Harvard University, MacArthur Foundation, 

Marine Biological Laboratory, Missouri Botanical Garden, Sloan Foundation, and the 

Smithsonian Institution.

Encyclopedia of Life Registration is optional

Encyclopedia of Life Available languages are 

English and partially localized in French, German, Russian and Ukrainian

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